I apologise to you Eugenia, I meant to post about a work around while waiting for a fix to be committed. So if people are too eager to get the functionality (like I was), they have some instructions to get it working (although it could break things for future updates). For the rest of the crowd, you just have to wait for a packager to compile Hal with libsmbios support and to back-port libsmbios so you have a version greater than 0.13 (Ubuntu 7.04 default version is 0.12.x) As this concern only Dell laptop users, I would expect that one will not have it working before Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon next release...
Furthermore, as I have binary deb package for a newer libsmbios (that is working with Hal) and the binary for the Hall addon that enable the LCD backlight, I could post in a near future the data directly on my website so people could install it without compiling anything. As for your comment about the Ubuntu guy, I do not think that he handled the case poorly. Hal is a core component, modifying it too much and it might break things for many people and many application. So I guess it is better to be a bit "conservative" in the approach to Hal maintenance. This is of course a bit disappointing from a user point of view, but if you get a system that is not booting anymore, this is a much more disappointing experience (not even mentioning the notoriety impact). In my humble opinion, the Ubuntu maintainers (guy or team) have the correct approach to the problem. One should bare in mind that libsmbios is a Universe package, which is not supported by Ubuntu directly but by the community. Therefore, I am not surprised that Hal does not support it. Libsmbios first needs to be back-ported (to version 0.13 or higher) and then be integrated into the main repository of Ubuntu. This is quite an heavy change that should not be performed on stable and published release. :-) I hope this clear up things. -- HAL is not built with libsmbios https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/92194 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
