The following patch to "gentoo/50-udev.rules" allows udevd to be run normally without hal being present on a system so that it doesn't flood /dev/console with missing '/usr/libexec/hal.hotplug' errors. Auke ---- -RUN+="/usr/libexec/hal.hotplug" +RUN+="/usr/bin/test -x /usr/libexec/hal.hotplug && /usr/libexec/hal.hotplug"