[Fwd: HAL error messages]

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 19:50 +0000, Luis Neves wrote:
> The KDE folks said to try here since you guys are the hal maintainers.
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: HAL error messages
> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:02:55 +0000
> From: Luis Neves <luis.neves at co.sapo.pt>
> To: kde-freebsd at freebsd.kde.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> I'm using KDE 3.5.5 in FreeBSD 6.2-RC2 installed from ports, it was a breeze to
> install. I've enabled HAL and setup the appropriate daemons in "/etc/rc.conf" as
> per UPDATING.
> It all works fine, I have not experienced functional problems, all my external
> storage media and CD/DVD drives mount/unmount without a glitch, I have only one
> issue. My PC has a attached multicard reader and HAL produces a continuous
> stream of error messages complaining that "Medium not present" (see below).
> Since I have no other problems I think that this is innocuous, but it screws up
> "dmesg" and it pollutes "/var/log/messages" is there a way to  silence HAL?

You will have to follow the README.freebsd example for creating an fdi
file, and merge the property storage.media_check_enabled with a value of
FALSE to tell hald to stop polling this device for media changes (use a
unique identifier for this device as the match criterion).  The downside
is that auto-mounting will no longer work for this device.  It
essentially will turn it into a floppy drive.

Joe

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