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Date:      Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:56:41 -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:  <1250179001.77213.28.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <C4D6EADD-2A31-48CF-941A-1CEC8C0391B0@lassitu.de>
References:  <C4D6EADD-2A31-48CF-941A-1CEC8C0391B0@lassitu.de>

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On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 17:31 +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I'm trying to get x11-drivers/xf86-input-vmmouse to work with hal, and =20
> I found two issues:
>=20
> - the fdi installed by the vmmouse port has a <match> element that =20
> won't work on FreeBSD.  I have a patch that corrects that, see below.
> - hal-probe-vmmouse uses hal-set-property with the --direct switch, =20
> which hal 0.5.11 does not offer.  AFAICT, there's no workaround, since =20
> normal communiation with hald is not possible while it's starting up.  =20
> This means that the X11 driver property will remain set to "mouse" =20
> instead of "vmmouse", prefering the standard driver over the VMware one.
>=20
> Are there plans to update hal to 0.5.12 or newer anytime soon, or =20
> 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 .

Joe

>=20
> Please keep me CCed, as I'm not subscribed to freebsd-gnome.
>=20
>=20
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>=20
> --- fdi/11-x11-vmmouse.fdi	2008-12-16 23:41:13.000000000 +0100
> +++ /usr/local/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/11-x11-vmmouse.fdi	=20
> 2009-08-13 16:00:23.000000000 +0200
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>   <deviceinfo version=3D"0.2">
>     <device>
>       <match key=3D"info.capabilities" contains=3D"input.mouse">
> -      <match key=3D"input.originating_device" contains=3D"i8042_AUX_port=
">
> +      <match key=3D"freebsd.driver" string=3D"psm">
>           <append key=3D"info.callouts.add" type=3D"strlist">hal-probe-=20
> vmmouse</append>
>         </match>
>       </match>
>=20
>=20
--=20
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