From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 17:24:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EC4816A41F for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:24:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hans@nieser.net) Received: from smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E98F143D45 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:24:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hans@nieser.net) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (nieser.net [194.109.160.131]) by smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k06HO5SB040999 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:24:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hans@nieser.net) Message-ID: <43BEA7B1.5080305@nieser.net> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:24:01 +0100 From: Hans Nieser User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Crispy Beef References: <43BE89FC.6030307@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: <43BE89FC.6030307@ntlworld.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DBus, Hald and Gnome Volume Manager X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:24:08 -0000 Crispy Beef wrote: > Hi, > > Have recently set-up hald, dbus and gnome-volume-manager on my Linux box > so that devices are automounted in fstab etc. Works great! Have had a > look to see if I can have this running with Gnome on my 6.0-RELEASE > laptop, found dbus in ports, but hald and gnome-volume-manager are > nowhere to be seen. > > Did some more digging and found that hald doesn't seem to have been > ported yet which is probably why I've hit a dead end. The site I found > the info on was from 2004 so it could be out of date, any ideas if > there's been any progress in this area? There has been some talk about this on the freebsd-gnome list ( http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2006-January/013312.html ), you might want to check there (or its archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/ ). Hans