Where is my "system.hardware.vendor" property?

[Danny Kukawka]

On Sonntag, 16. Dezember 2007, pi3orama wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> Sorry for me abruptness, but I don't know where to post my question.
> I'm trying to build "Linux from scrash" system on a Dell Inspiron 1520
> and everything seems OK. But when I start haldaemon before startx, I
> found the "Win" key (super key)didn't work (if i stop haldaemon before
> startx, it works OK). Then I read some documentation about haldaemon
> and try to solve the problem, but when I tried to do something, I
> found my system doesn't have a
> "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.vendor"
> property in hal-device-manager (and also doesn't have
> hardware.product), therefore the matching in xxxx-keymap-xxxx.fdi
> doesn't work. It seems few people met the same problem, I searched
> among google and found no useful information.
>
> The version I using is:
> hal-0.5.10,
> hal-info-20071212,
> dbus-1.1.2

You have to install (actually with 0.5.10) dmidecode to get these properties.

Danny