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Subject: Re: VirtualBox and HAL / D-Bus / PulseAudio (?)
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Sean C. Farley wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
>
>> On Wed, January 13, 2010 10:29 pm, martinko wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> As I do run D-Bus but do not run HAL nor PulseAudio on my system I'm
>>> wondering what are the options and consequences :
>>> - port option DBUS=on and rc.conf option DBUS=YES but without HAL
>>> - port option DBUS=off .. what do I lose ?
>>
>> You need HAL and DBus for CD/DVD Host access.
>
> Actually, HAL is not needed by VirtualBox (at least the OSE version). I
> just verified that the guest automatically detects a CD I put into the
> drive. I use WITHOUT_HAL globally in building ports. It may be needed
> for USB (non-OSE) support, but I am not sure.

 From my understanding of the Makefile it seems DBUS option has nothing 
to do with HAL.

Is there a global WITHOUT_HAL option we can use ?  That would be great.

And I can definitely live without PulseAudio, OSS works great here.

Cheers,

Martin