From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 19:10:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E3F1065677 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 19:10:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parish@magichamster.com) Received: from jedburgh.just4dns.com (jedburgh.just4dns.com [78.129.134.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A7B8FC12 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 19:10:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parish@magichamster.com) Received: from [86.153.243.228] (helo=movens.plus.com) by jedburgh.just4dns.com with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K0i55-0004Er-2b for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 May 2008 20:10:03 +0100 Received: from [10.10.1.4] (redshift [10.10.1.4]) by postbag.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 721351CC32 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 20:10:15 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <483B0B15.4050904@magichamster.com> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 20:10:13 +0100 From: Mark Ovens User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080524) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: 1K0i55-0004Er-2b X-Fuzioned-MailScanner: Not scanned: please contact your Internet E-Mail Service Provider for details X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-From: parish@magichamster.com X-Spam-Status: No X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - jedburgh.just4dns.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - magichamster.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Pros and cons of amd(8) vs. hald(8) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 19:10:50 -0000 Would anyone care to offer any advice as to which is the better choice? I've never used amd(8) but have recently enabled hald(8) which seems to work reasonably well although I've had some crashes with USB devices - it probably doesn't help that my Asus m/b uses the AMD 76x chipset which had some USB issues and so did the mobo BIOS (Asus supplied a PCI USB card with the board to get around these). The advantage, if you see it as such, with hald(8) is that it enables KDE to pop-up a "what do you want to do" dialogue when you attach a device which amd(8) won't. Regards, Mark