Dell Backlight

[David Zeuthen]

On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 14:03 -0400, Jon Barnett wrote:
> I've been playing with the hal 0.5.9 rc2 and rc3 releases but I can't
> get the Dell backlight code to run at all. The hald-addon-dell-backlight
> doesn't seem to start up. I've compiled it with smbios support and it
> builds fine and it all installs. Everything else comes up fine as it has
> always done with hal. cpu-freq and acpi hall add-ons start up fine.
> 
> I'm not a hal expert so I'm not quite sure what I can do to test for
> correct operation of this add on or whether there is anything else I am
> supposed to do with this. Any pointers would be appreciated. I can work
> my way through the code if someone can explain the sequence of how the
> add on is supposed to start up.
> 
> I'm using hal 0.5.9 rc3 at the moment. libsmbios is at 0.13.5. dbus is
> 1.0.2. I'm running on slackware-current. The kernel is at 2.6.20.1.

That's weird. Can you attach the output of lshal? Thanks!

> As an addendum, rc3 'make check' fails when verifying an fdi against a
> dtd.
> Validate XML in 10-keyboard-policy.fdi : failed
> ./10-keyboard-policy.fdi:12: element match: validity error : No
> declaration for attribute contains_not of element match
> Document ./10-keyboard-policy.fdi does not validate
> against ../../../fdi/fdi.dtd

Yeah, I just fixed that.

     David