HAL and related GNOME issues

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 18:28 -0700, Charles Schaum wrote:
> Thanks for the GNOME work.
> 
> After considerable hardware and software
> reconfiguration, I still have been unable to get HAL
> to recognize any FAT32 partitions on my second hard
> drive. I have two Western Digital drives, one 80G and
> one 160G.
> 
> I wiped and reformatted all slices except my legacy
> Windows partition (ad0s1). I also put my scratch space
> for my other networked Windows/BSD/Mac machines / dual
> booting purposes on ad1s1. So my FreeBSD slices are
> now ad0s2 and ad1s2. Everything has been rebuilt from
> ports.

Apply this patch to hal, then run hald manually with:

/usr/local/sbin/hald --daemon=no

You should get a lot of "XXX" lines.  Send that output.

http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/patch-probe-volume.c

Joe

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