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  1. Bug #379780
  2. Comment #88

Comment 88 for bug 379780

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 379780] Re: CD-ROM polling on some Optiarc drives causes high CPU usage

Mark Fernandes [2010-04-08 13:48 -0000]:
> What I cannot understand though is if HAL is disabled, why then does the
> hald daemon automatically start. I do not have settings that enabled
> that daemon to start because I am working with the stock installation of
> Lucid.

The only thing that still uses HAL is gnome-power-manager, when you
have a graphics card/driver which does not support the XBACKLIGHT
extension. g-p-m falls back to HAL then and triggers its startup.