On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 17:18 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 09:56:03PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > Hal doesn't yet work with usb2. You will need to statically configure > > your input devices in xorg.conf until support is added. > > It seems that hal seems to be a vitally important part of most desktop systems, > now. What's the best source of documentation on both the external whys and > wherefores and the day-to-day care and feeding? The FreeBSD GNOME Team maintains a user-level hal FAQ at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html . We don't have any FreeBSD-specific development docs. However, the hal spec at http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/hal-spec/hal-spec.html is a good starting point. > > Also, is there a FreeBSD hald-meister, whos job it is to ensure that hal > continues to reflect up-to-date FreeBSD capabilities and mechanisms? That's me. I'd really appreciate help as I don't have all of the requisite hardware or expertise in all of the subsystems. For instance, we're completely lacking SD/MMC, firewire, and printer functionality. Some of this has been posted on FreeBSD's idea page for some time. I asked Hans to add some additional functions to libusb20 to aid in hal porting, and he did quite quickly. I'm going to start working on the port. I will definitely have something by next week. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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