Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:40:04 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update to hal 0.5.12 or later? Message-ID: <1250181604.77213.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <98A3E383-7F7F-4BA4-9E45-DAF53D7270E2@lassitu.de> References: <C4D6EADD-2A31-48CF-941A-1CEC8C0391B0@lassitu.de> <1250179001.77213.28.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <98A3E383-7F7F-4BA4-9E45-DAF53D7270E2@lassitu.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 18:26 +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote: > Am 13.08.2009 um 17:56 schrieb Joe Marcus Clarke: > > > On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 17:31 +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote: > >> - hal-probe-vmmouse uses hal-set-property with the --direct switch, > >> which hal 0.5.11 does not offer. AFAICT, there's no workaround, > >> since > >> normal communiation with hald is not possible while it's starting up. > >> This means that the X11 driver property will remain set to "mouse" > >> instead of "vmmouse", prefering the standard driver over the VMware > >> one. > >> > >> Are there plans to update hal to 0.5.12 or newer anytime soon, or > >> should I try to come up with a patch? > > > > Hal has been updated to 0.5.13 in the MarcusCom CVS repository pending > > the release of GNOME 2.28 in September. You can preview this by going > > to http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi . > > Thanks for the quick reply! > > Is there an easy workaround for the hal-set-property --direct issue in > the meantime? Or should I just locally change the fdi to always set > input.x11_driver=vmmouse? I think locally modifying and installing the overriding fdi file is the way to go now. Joe > > > Thanks, > Stefan > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkqEQeIACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4fAPACdEHjrvr5BFh+b4zs76dP/iUnC lwMAn28iPBw+ujCvUAhdvXyTvhqk+C+D =YE7x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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