DBus, Hald and Gnome Volume Manager

[Hans Nieser]

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 the info on was from 2004 so it could be out of date, any ideas if 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