problems with HAL and input devices

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 12:19 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> I'm attempting to get my keyboard to work as specified at:
> 
>  http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/
> 
> In querying HAL, the "Thinkpad Extra Buttons" never appears to show up
> as a property of the device in lshal. Looking at the code, it was looking
> in the wrong place for properties.
> 
> So, I cooked up the attached patch. However, with this change... hal now
> denies that the proper input device exists - it opens it, reads the properties,
> etc... but it never shows up in lshal.

This patch should fix it

http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=commitdiff;h=a871c7d40e13eb247bce34aae7a9ceafaf719b10

      David