Update to hal 0.5.12 or later?

[Stefan Bethke]

Am 13.08.2009 um 17:56 schrieb Joe Marcus Clarke:

> On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 17:31 +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote:
>> - 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 .

Thanks for the quick reply!

Is there an easy workaround for the hal-set-property --direct issue in  
the meantime?  Or should I just locally change the fdi to always set  
input.x11_driver=vmmouse?


Thanks,
Stefan

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