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Hi, can anyone offer some advice on the following please.

Am running Redhat ES3 and trying to get VLC to work

have downloaded vlc-0.8.1.i386.tar.gz, vlc-devel-0.8.1.i386.tar.gz and redhat9-updates.tar.gz from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html and installed all 3 using rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm

Have downloaded and made sure that hal-0.4.0-10.i386.rpm is correctly running

Have also downloaded and made sure that dbus-0.22-12_0.99.el3.at.i386.rpm is correctly running

Output from ps ax | grep dbus | grep -v grep is as follows

6053 ? S 0:00 rpm -i --force --nodeps dbus-0.22-12_0.99.el3.at.i386.rpm
2791 ? S 0:00 dbus-daemon-1 --system

Which as far as I can tell is correct.

However when I run VLC I get the following

VLC media player 0.8.1 Janus
libhal.c 767 : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceDoesNotExist raised
"Service "org.freedesktop.Hal" does not exist"

Remote control interface initialised, `h' for help

I have tried everything I can think of so would appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance

Just ignore it. you don't need libhal support anyways.