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From: Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: webcamd and hal
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Hi,

I'm using webcamd happily, it's working quite well. I did notice that it 
seems that if I disable the HAL option, it continues to work but doesn't 
seem to create the /dev/dsp* entries, which I do need. Is there some way 
to avoid this?

I ask because webcamd seems to be the only thing (on my system anyway) 
that's using hald, and hald also seems to depend on an older version of 
polkit (sysutils/policykit, not to be confused with sysutils/polkit) and 
I'd like to avoid that if possible.

Thanks,
Steve