A few HAL problems

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 14:26 +0200, Fabian Zeindl wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm using ivman (ivman.sourceforge.net) with HAL and I encountered a few
> problems with HAL:
> 
>  * HAL is very slow in detecting property changes: plugging in and out the
> ac-adapter takes about 15 seconds for hal to discover it.

What version of HAL are you running? the acpi addon in the newest
version makes my events *instantaneous*

>  * my PWRF-button doesn't have a state so I can't use it (I think that's acpi
> related, am I right?)

It shouldn't have state. You press the button momentarily, and you get a
device_condition, unlike a lid, where it can be open or closed.

>  * my laptop-lid has a state (opened,closed). Hal doesn't discover that.

It should. Perhaps a bug - it does with mine.

Richard.