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

[Danny Kukawka]

On Sonntag, 16. Dezember 2007, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> 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.

And please use the next time your realname!

Danny