Update to hal 0.5.12 or later?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 17:31 +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get x11-drivers/xf86-input-vmmouse to work with hal, and  
> I found two issues:
> 
> - the fdi installed by the vmmouse port has a <match> element that  
> 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,  
> 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 .

Joe

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