17:52:29 # Life Shutting up hal on my CD-ROM drive. Apparently, it's pretty simple to disable HAL polling. I just had to know how. There is a command called hal-disable-pollin, which allows creating the required fdi file.
$ sudo hal-disable-polling --device /dev/hda Polling for drive /dev/hda have been disabled. The fdi file written was /etc/hal/fdi/information/media-check-disable-storage_serial_HG02548A.fdi
This allows me to not specify irqpoll to the Kernel. irqpoll somehow broke poweroff on shutdown, and reduced speed, this is much better.
22:22:29 # Life Macbook dmesg. I've got a new macbook (MacBook 4,1). dmesg is noisy, something is wrong. It's telling me it's having something wrong with /dev/hda several times a second.
[10630.374297] hda: status error: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
[10630.374306] hda: status error: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
[10630.374309] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[10630.374315] hda: drive not ready for command
I received several suggestions. /dev/hda is the CDROM drive. HAL seems to be polling the CDROM drive. I kind of know the drive is not ready because nothing is loaded yet. HAL seems to be polling the drive like this. Hmm...
memo: dmidecode tells me this is MacBook4,1.
Handle 0x000F, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Product Name: MacBook4,1
10:13:06 # Life My macbook reinstalled, and emacs. Lenny new install, with emacs22. muse-el not working for me today, dunno why. wl is telling me 'Cannot open load file wl'. I need to debug some more to find out why. I found that the new classic MacBook is very different from the MacBook I bought 2 years ago; it has a different sound engine, and different Infrared (does it have anymore?), and different keyboard.
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50muse-el.el (source)... Error while loading 50muse-el
For wl, for some reason wl.el isn't there in /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/wl/.
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