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From: Eduardo Cerejo <ejcerejo@optonline.net>
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Subject: Re: Gnome and KDE?
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On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:38:41 -0700
Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:

> 
> 	People,
> 
> 	What's the magic command to ger hald running while I'm running 
> 	KDE?  The audio/multimedia app, Sound-Juicer can't find my 
> 	/dev/cdrom because the hal daemon isn't running.  Exec'ing hald 
> 	by hand didn't work.
> 
> 	Anybody?
> 
> 	gary

add this to your /etc/rc.conf file and reboot:

# Enables HALd
dbus_enable="YES"
polkitd_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"