I'm having no problems with hal using a compiled vanilla 2.6.15 kernel from kernel.org;
$ uname -a
Linux Aspire5000 2.6.15 #1 Tue Jan 3 09:30:14 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ service messagebus status
dbus-daemon (pid 3101 2732) is running...
$ service haldaemon status
hald (pid 2739) is running...
I am using the hal rpms from the development tree however;
[lenard@Aspire5000 ~]$ rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}.rpm\n' 'hal*'
hal-0.5.2-2.i386.rpm
hal-0.5.2-2.x86_64.rpm
And I see that a newer version (then when I got mine) are now available;
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...109-2.i386.rpm