problems with HAL on Dell c840

[Greg Rodenhiser]

I recently did a fresh install on Redhat Fedora Core 3 on my Dell c840
laptop.  There appears to be a problem with haldaemon on my laptop.  The
hal daemon seems to really slow down my hard drive access.  Once the OS
has booted, everything would go very slow, it would take literally 10
minutes to login to gnome.  Running hdparm -t /dev/hda with haldaemon
running would return 1 MB/s, making the system unusable.  Once I turn
off haldaemon, everything is fine.  Anyone else experience this?  I'd
like to be able to use it, but obviously can't with the hit it puts on
my laptop.  Is there something I need to configure?  Thanks in
advance...
-- 
Greg Rodenhiser
College of the Holy Cross
Technical Services Engineer

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