HAL is a hardware abstraction layer whose goal is to merge information from
various sources such that desktop applications can locate and use hardware
devices. The point is that the exact set of information to merge varies by
device and bus type.
WWW: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal
===> The following configuration options are available for hal-0.5.14_34:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
FIXED_MOUNTPOINTS=off: use fixed mountpoints
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Add devd to the list of hald's rc.d dependencies. Note: we cannot remove
usbd yet because 6.X and 5.X still have it, and if it is desired, then
it should be started BEFORE hald.
PR: 112017
Add an option which makes hald use the device name rather than the
volume label as default mountpoint. Using the UTF-8 volume label as
mountpoint can be problematic with legacy locales.
Reported by: Andrew Muhametshin <andrew@dobrohot.org>, lofi
Update to snapshot 20070403.
* Add a new utility function, hf_str_no_slashes(), that converts '/' into '_'
for purposes of UDI constructions. UDI path components cannot contain
embedded slashes, and a trailing slash will cause hald to crash. [1]
* Ensure that UDIs of ATA and SCSI devices are unique. [2]
* Do not re-probe disks that are managed by hald-addon-storage since that
will result in a double-probe and data corruption. In particular, this
fixes a problem with CD unmounting when ATAPICAM is enabled. [3]
Reported by: Chess Griffin <chessg@gmail.com> [1]
sajd on #freebsd-gnome [3]
Submitted by: jylefort [2]
Reviewed by: jylefort [3]
* Power down the system rather than simply shutting it down. [1]
* Avoid an infinite loop with buggy PCI firmwares [2] [3]
* While here, simplify the PCI probing mechanism [3]
PR: 110492 [1]
Reported by: manphiz@gmail.com, Nick Withers <nick@nickwithers.com> [2]
Submitted by: Rechistov Grigory <ggg_mail@inbox.ru> [1]
jylefort [3]
Update to snapshot 20070210.
* Fix an assertion in hal-device [1]
* Fix detection of disc volumes on FreeBSD 5.X
* Fix the mapping of SCSI to atapi devices [2]
Obtained from: HAL git [1]
Submitted by: jylefort [2]
Update to snapshot 20070104.
* If atapicam is enabled, use the CAM device node instead of the ATAPI
device node to access disc devices. The previous behavior can be restored
by following instructions in the README.freebsd file. [1]
* Flesh out the list of supported mount options for the vaious file systems
Submitted by: jylefort [1]
Update to snapshot 20061224.
* Fix support for ATAPI devices under FreeBSD 5.X [1]
* Add more mount options for FAT and NTFS file systems
A special thanks to Nigel Wohlers <nigel@eyede.com> who provided a machine
for testing the 5.X patches.
Reported by: lofi
Update to snapshot 20061217.
* Fix some 64-bit compile warnings
* Turn two assertions into additional conditional checks to prevent potential
hald crashes when switching disc media
* Shutdown hald on deinstall to prevent two halds from running on restart
Update to snapshot 20661117.
* Account for ACPI BIOSes that report a rate of 0xffff while they are still
initializing (adapted from the HAL linux backend)
* Add support for two new net properties: net.freebsd.ifindex and
net.80203.rate
* Add support for the MBREXT GEOM class
* Create /media for 6.1 and 5.5 users that do not have this directory in
mtree
Revert the previous commit. It appears that the operator group is for
allowing to mount volumes etc while the wheel group is for allowing to
su to root.
Reported by: kris
Update to snapshot 20061107.
* Use the system libvolume_id
* Fix some bashims in the configure script
* Merge the latest HAL ids code from HAL git
* Add support for the pnp.description property
* If hw.acpi.lid_switch_state is set to NONE, set the info.ignore property on
the lid button to TRUE
* Actually introduce the fix for treating blank discs as volumes. This
truly fixes nautilus-cd-burner
* Add support for the new volume.partition properties
* Add more GEOM support for SUN, APPLE, and GPT classes
Thanks to jylefort for reviewing some of these patches, and a bunch of
testers for putting the changes through their paces.
Update to snapshot 20061102.
* The volume probing helper can take up to a minute to run the isoinfo
command against data DVDs, so bump the timeout up to 60 seconds.
* Fix a spurious warning when running lshal
Add two new properties to SCSI block devices. The first is
block.freebsd.cam_path which is a bus,target,lun path to a SCSI device.
This is needed by tools such as cdrecord, and by adding a private freebsd
property, it is much easier to get apps like nautilus-cd-burner working.
The second property is block.freebsd.atapi_cam_device. This property is
actually attached to ATAPI CAM devices, and denotes the CAM block device
associated with this ATAPI block device. This may be useful for programs
that can only operate with CAM-compliant devices.
Finally, update the volume probing code so that blank discs are treated as
volumes. This is sort of crude. We basically say a disc is blank is it
is a disc and contains no data and no audio.
With all of these changes, plus a minor change to nautilus-cd-burner, n-c-b
now works again on FreeBSD.
Update to the 20061030 snapshot which contains support for virtual GEOM
classes such as MIRROR, LABEL, GELI, etc. as well as fixes a bug with
handling the return value from open(2) in the volume probing code.
Presenting GNOME 2.16.1 for FreeBSD. This release represents a massive
amount of work by the FreeBSD GNOME Team and our testers.
On top of the usual GNOME update, we have taken this opportunity to move
GNOME from X11BASE to LOCALBASE. This means roughly 600 ports NOT part of
the GNOME Desktop also need to be changed. The bulk of the move was carried
out by ahze, mezz, and pav, but it would not have been possible without
cooperation from the FreeBSD KDE team who worked with us to make sure
GNOME and KDE can still coexist happily. We would also like to send a
shout out to kris and pointyhat for putting up with multiple test runs
until we got something that was solid.
Back to GNOME 2.16. This release brings a huge amount of new functionality
to FreeBSD. The standard release notes can be read at
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/ . But on top of what you will read there,
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