A few HAL problems

[Fabian Zeindl]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:31:50 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote
> Which version of HAL?

0.5.4

> >  * HAL is very slow in detecting property changes: plugging in and out the
> > ac-adapter takes about 15 seconds for hal to discover it.
> 
> The reason is your system. HAL does not poll the state of AC 
> permanently. I think your system does not provide a ACPI AC_adapter 
> event. In this case HAL poll /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/*/status every 30 
> seconds or if a ac_battery event recieved.

I replied to this in the other mail. cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state shows
the change instantly.

> >  * my laptop-lid has a state (opened,closed). Hal doesn't discover that.
> 
> Is there for your acpi_LID not a key like this in lshal?:
> 
> button.has_state = true
> button.state.value = false

There are this values, but button.state.value never changes to "false", it's
always "true".

greetings
fabian zeindl


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