Pros and cons of amd(8) vs. hald(8)

[Mark Ovens]

Would anyone care to offer any advice as to which is the better choice?

I've never used amd(8) but have recently enabled hald(8) which seems to 
work reasonably well although I've had some crashes with USB devices - 
it probably doesn't help that my Asus m/b uses the AMD 76x chipset which 
had some USB issues and so did the mobo BIOS (Asus supplied a PCI USB 
card with the board to get around these).

The advantage, if you see it as such, with hald(8) is that it enables 
KDE to pop-up a "what do you want to do" dialogue when you attach a 
device which amd(8) won't.

Regards,

Mark