| 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY hal-download-http "http://freedesktop.org/~david/dist/hal-&hal-version;.tar.gz">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY hal-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/hal-&hal-version;.tar.gz">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY hal-md5sum "a6f532770cf9286e1de38d6570cbc6bc">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY hal-size "1.5 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY hal-buildsize "20.2 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY hal-time "0.4 SBU">
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| 13 |
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| 14 | <!ENTITY hal-info-version "20070425">
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| 15 | <!ENTITY hal-info-download-http "http://freedesktop.org/~david/dist/hal-info-&hal-info-version;.tar.gz">
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| 16 | <!ENTITY hal-info-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/hal-info-&hal-info-version;.tar.gz">
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| 17 | <!ENTITY hal-info-md5sum "69022cc562aa374c603d3ff8ca33569c">
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| 18 | <!ENTITY hal-info-size "106 KB">
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| 19 | ]>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <sect1 id="hal" xreflabel="HAL-&hal-version;">
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| 22 | <?dbhtml filename="hal.html"?>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <sect1info>
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| 25 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 26 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 27 | </sect1info>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <title>HAL-&hal-version;</title>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <indexterm zone="hal">
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| 32 | <primary sortas="a-HAL">HAL</primary>
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| 33 | </indexterm>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 36 | <title>Introduction to HAL</title>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <para><application>HAL</application> is a hardware abstraction layer, which
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| 39 | is a piece of software that provides a view of the various hardware
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| 40 | attached to a system. In addition to this, <application>HAL</application>
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| 41 | keeps detailed metadata for each piece of hardware and provides hooks such
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| 42 | that system and desktop-level software can react to changes in the hardware
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| 43 | configuration in order to maintain system policy.</para>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <para>The most important goal of <application>HAL</application> is to
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| 46 | provide plug-and-play facilities for UNIX-like desktops with focus on
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| 47 | providing a rich and extensible description of device characteristics and
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| 48 | features. One example of the functionality provided by
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| 49 | <application>HAL</application> is when you plug in a USB storage device.
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| 50 | <application>HAL</application> can automatically create a mount point in
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| 51 | <filename class="directory">/media</filename> and mount the device.</para>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 54 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 55 | <listitem>
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| 56 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&hal-download-http;"/></para>
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| 57 | </listitem>
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| 58 | <listitem>
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| 59 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&hal-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 60 | </listitem>
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| 61 | <listitem>
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| 62 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &hal-md5sum;</para>
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| 63 | </listitem>
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| 64 | <listitem>
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| 65 | <para>Download size: &hal-size;</para>
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| 66 | </listitem>
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| 67 | <listitem>
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| 68 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &hal-buildsize;</para>
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| 69 | </listitem>
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| 70 | <listitem>
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| 71 | <para>Estimated build time: &hal-time;</para>
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| 72 | </listitem>
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| 73 | </itemizedlist>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Download</bridgehead>
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| 76 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 77 | <title>Required Hardware Data</title>
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| 78 | <listitem>
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| 79 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&hal-info-download-http;"/></para>
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| 80 | </listitem>
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| 81 | <listitem>
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| 82 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&hal-info-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 83 | </listitem>
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| 84 | <listitem>
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| 85 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &hal-info-md5sum;</para>
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| 86 | </listitem>
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| 87 | <listitem>
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| 88 | <para>Download size: &hal-info-size;</para>
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| 89 | </listitem>
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| 90 | </itemizedlist>
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| 91 |
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| 92 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">HAL Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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| 95 | <para role="required"><xref linkend="pkgconfig"/>,
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| 96 | <xref linkend="glib2"/>,
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| 97 | <xref linkend="dbus"/>,
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| 98 | <!-- FIXME: Uncomment when the dbus bindings get in the book
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| 99 | <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
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| 100 | -->
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| 101 | <xref linkend="python"/>, and
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| 102 | <xref linkend="perl-xml-parser"/></para>
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| 103 |
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| 104 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 105 | <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="pciutils"/>
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| 106 | (with a current <filename>pci.ids</filename> file) and
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| 107 | <xref linkend="usbutils"/>
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| 108 | (with a current <filename>usb.ids</filename> file)</para>
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| 109 |
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| 110 | <!-- FIXME: Uncomment when the dbus bindings get in the book
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| 111 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (to Build
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| 112 | <command>hal-device-manager</command>)</bridgehead>
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| 113 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="dbus-python"/></para>
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| 114 | -->
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| 115 |
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| 116 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (to Create Documentation)</bridgehead>
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| 117 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="libxml2"/> and
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| 118 | <ulink url="http://cyberelk.net/tim/xmlto/">xmlto</ulink></para>
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| 119 |
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| 120 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 121 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>
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| 122 | <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/index.shtml">Parted</ulink>,
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| 123 | <xref linkend="libusb"/>,
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| 124 | <ulink url="http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/index.html">libsmbios</ulink>,
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| 125 | <ulink url="http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git;a=summary">PolicyKit</ulink>, and
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| 126 | <xref linkend="intltool"/></para>
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| 127 |
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| 128 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 129 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/hal"/></para>
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| 130 |
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| 131 | </sect2>
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| 132 |
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| 133 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 134 | <title>Installation of HAL</title>
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| 135 |
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| 136 | <para>You must create a dedicated user and group before installing the
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| 137 | package. Though the default BLFS instructions run the
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| 138 | <application>HAL</application> daemon as the
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| 139 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user, a configuration file
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| 140 | is installed which has the dedicated user's name hard-coded in it. This
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| 141 | causes a confusing message to be generated when starting the
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| 142 | <application>D-BUS</application> daemon. Issue the following commands as
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| 143 | the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 144 |
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| 145 | <screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 19 haldaemon &&
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| 146 | useradd -c "HAL Daemon User" -d /dev/null -u 19 \
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| 147 | -g haldaemon -s /bin/false haldaemon</userinput></screen>
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| 148 |
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| 149 | <para>Install <application>HAL</application> by running the following
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| 150 | commands:</para>
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| 151 |
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| 152 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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| 153 | --sysconfdir=/etc \
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| 154 | --libexecdir=/usr/lib/hal \
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| 155 | --localstatedir=/var &&
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| 156 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | <para>To test the results, issue <command>make check</command>.</para>
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| 159 |
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| 160 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 161 |
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| 162 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 163 |
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| 164 | <para>Prepare the <application>HAL</application> hardware data with the
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| 165 | following commands:</para>
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| 166 |
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| 167 | <screen><userinput>tar -xf ../hal-info-&hal-info-version;.tar.gz &&
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| 168 | ./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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| 169 |
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| 170 | <para>Finally, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 171 |
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| 172 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 173 |
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| 174 | </sect2>
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| 175 |
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| 176 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 177 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 178 |
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| 179 | <para><parameter>--libexecdir=/usr/lib/hal</parameter>: This parameter
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| 180 | forces the installation of libexec files to
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| 181 | <filename class='directory'>/usr/lib/hal</filename> instead of
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| 182 | <filename class='directory'>/usr/libexec</filename>.</para>
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| 183 |
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| 184 | <para><parameter>--localstatedir=/var</parameter>: This parameter forces
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| 185 | the creation of the <filename>pid</filename> file to
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| 186 | <filename class='directory'>/var/run/hald</filename> instead of
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| 187 | <filename class='directory'>/usr/var/run/hald</filename>.</para>
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| 188 |
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| 189 | <para><parameter>--enable-docbook-docs
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| 190 | --docdir=/usr/share/doc/hal-&hal-version;</parameter>: If <xref
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| 191 | linkend="libxml2"/> and <ulink
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| 192 | url="http://cyberelk.net/tim/xmlto/">xmlto</ulink> are available, these
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| 193 | parameters enable the <application>HAL</application> specification
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| 194 | documentation to be built.</para>
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| 195 |
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| 196 | </sect2>
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| 197 |
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| 198 | <sect2 id="hal-runtime-dependencies" xreflabel="GNOME-Python">
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| 199 | <title>Run-Time Dependencies</title>
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| 200 |
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| 201 | <para>A few more packages enable more functionality in
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| 202 | <application>HAL</application> at run-time. These include <ulink
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| 203 | url="http://ca.geocities.com/jefftranter@rogers.com/eject.html">Eject</ulink>,
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| 204 | <ulink url="http://people.freedesktop.org/~mccann/dist/">ConsoleKit</ulink>,
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| 205 | <ulink url="http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/">dmidecode</ulink>,
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| 206 | <ulink url="http://sourceware.org/dm/">Device-mapper</ulink>,
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| 207 | <ulink url="http://luks.endorphin.org/dm-crypt">Cryptsetup-LUKS</ulink>, and
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| 208 | <ulink url="http://cvsweb.freedesktop.org/pm-utils/pm-utils/">pm-utils</ulink>.</para>
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| 209 |
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| 210 | <para>The <xref linkend="hal-device-manager"/> program requires several
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| 211 | additional packages to be installed before it will run. The list is
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| 212 | significant and requires a substantial commitment to install them. It is
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| 213 | left up to you to determine if the time and effort spent installing the
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| 214 | following packages is worth using the <command>hal-device-manager</command>
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| 215 | program.</para>
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| 216 |
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| 217 | <para>Though the only requirement to run the
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| 218 | <command>hal-device-manager</command> program is installing
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| 219 | <ulink url="&gnome-download-http;/gnome-python/">
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| 220 | GNOME-Python</ulink>, the dependency list is staggering. The following
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| 221 | list does not include the dependencies already identified in the BLFS
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| 222 | book. For example, <application>libgnome</application> already lists
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| 223 | <application>GNOME VFS</application>, <application>GConf</application>,
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| 224 | etc., so they are not repeated here. Note that some of the dependencies
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| 225 | have their own dependencies, which have their own, and so forth and so
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| 226 | on.</para>
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| 227 |
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| 228 | <itemizedlist>
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| 229 | <listitem>
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| 230 | <para><ulink
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| 231 | url="&gnome-download-http;/gnome-python/">GNOME-Python</ulink>
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| 232 | </para>
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| 233 |
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| 234 | <itemizedlist>
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| 235 | <listitem>
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| 236 | <para><ulink
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| 237 | url="http://www.pygtk.org/">PyGTK</ulink> (required)
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| 238 | </para>
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| 239 |
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| 240 | <itemizedlist>
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| 241 | <listitem>
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| 242 | <para><xref linkend="libglade"/> (required)</para>
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| 243 | </listitem>
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| 244 | <listitem>
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| 245 | <para><ulink
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| 246 | url="&gnome-download-http;/pygobject/">PyGObject</ulink> (required)</para>
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| 247 | </listitem>
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| 248 | <listitem>
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| 249 | <para><ulink
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| 250 | url="http://www.cairographics.org/pycairo">Pycairo</ulink> (optional)
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| 251 | </para>
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| 252 |
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| 253 | <!-- Removing these dependencies as they are now obsolete
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| 254 | See the pycairo docs for full details
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| 255 | <itemizedlist>
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| 256 | <listitem>
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| 257 | <para><ulink
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| 258 | url="http://www.cairographics.org/snapshots/">libsvg-cairo</ulink> (optional)
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| 259 | </para>
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| 260 |
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| 261 | <itemizedlist>
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| 262 | <listitem>
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| 263 | <para><ulink
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| 264 | url="http://www.cairographics.org/snapshots/">libsvg</ulink> (required)
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| 265 | </para>
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| 266 | </listitem>
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| 267 | </itemizedlist>
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| 268 |
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| 269 | </listitem>
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| 270 | <listitem>
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| 271 | <para><ulink
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| 272 | url="http://www.pygtk.org/">PyGTK</ulink> (optional, and circular)
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| 273 | </para>
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| 274 | </listitem>
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| 275 | <listitem>
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| 276 | <para><ulink
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| 277 | url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy">Numerical Python</ulink> (optional)
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| 278 | </para>
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| 279 | </listitem>
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| 280 | </itemizedlist>
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| 281 | -->
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| 282 |
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| 283 | </listitem>
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| 284 | <listitem>
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| 285 | <para><ulink
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| 286 | url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy">Old Numeric</ulink> (optional)
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| 287 | </para>
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| 288 | </listitem>
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| 289 | </itemizedlist>
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| 290 |
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| 291 | </listitem>
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| 292 | <listitem>
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| 293 | <para><xref linkend="libgnomeui"/> (optional)</para>
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| 294 | </listitem>
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| 295 | <listitem>
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| 296 | <para><xref linkend="libgnome"/> (required)</para>
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| 297 | </listitem>
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| 298 | <listitem>
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| 299 | <para><ulink
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| 300 | url="&gnome-download-http;/pyorbit/">PyORBit</ulink> (optional)
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| 301 | </para>
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| 302 |
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| 303 | <itemizedlist>
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| 304 | <listitem>
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| 305 | <para><xref linkend="ORBit2"/> (required)</para>
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| 306 | </listitem>
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| 307 | </itemizedlist>
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| 308 |
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| 309 | </listitem>
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| 310 | </itemizedlist>
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| 311 |
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| 312 | </listitem>
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| 313 | </itemizedlist>
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| 314 |
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| 315 | <note>
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| 316 | <para>The dependency list is designed to start at the bottom and work
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| 317 | your way up until the last package to install is
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| 318 | <application>GNOME-Python</application>. Note that the dependencies
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| 319 | marked as <quote>required</quote> are required for the package it is
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| 320 | listed under. For example, you don't need to install
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| 321 | <application>ORBit</application> if you don't plan on installing
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| 322 | <application>PyORBit</application>. The minimum packages you could
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| 323 | install to support running <xref linkend="hal-device-manager"/> would be
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| 324 | (in this order): <xref linkend="libgnome"/>, <xref linkend="libglade"/>,
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| 325 | <ulink url="http://www.pygtk.org/">PyGTK</ulink> and <ulink
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| 326 | url="&gnome-download-http;/gnome-python/">
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| 327 | GNOME-Python</ulink>.</para>
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| 328 | </note>
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| 329 |
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| 330 | </sect2>
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| 331 |
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| 332 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 333 | <title>Configuring HAL</title>
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| 334 |
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| 335 | <sect3 id="hal-config">
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| 336 | <title>Config Files</title>
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| 337 | <para><filename>/etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf</filename>,
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| 338 | <filename>/etc/dbus-1/system.d/halusers.conf</filename> and
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| 339 | <filename>/etc/hal/*</filename></para>
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| 340 |
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| 341 | <indexterm zone="hal hal-config">
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| 342 | <primary sortas="e-etc-dbus-1-system.d-hal.conf">/etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf</primary>
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| 343 | </indexterm>
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| 344 |
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| 345 | <indexterm zone="hal hal-config">
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| 346 | <primary sortas="e-etc-dbus-1-system.d-halusers.conf">/etc/dbus-1/system.d/halusers.conf</primary>
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| 347 | </indexterm>
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| 348 |
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| 349 | <indexterm zone="hal hal-config">
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| 350 | <primary sortas="e-etc-hal-star">/etc/hal/*</primary>
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| 351 | </indexterm>
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| 352 | </sect3>
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| 353 |
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| 354 | <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 355 |
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| 356 | <para>The default setup for <application>HAL</application> is to allow
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| 357 | only certain users to invoke methods such as Mount(). These are
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| 358 | the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user and the user
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| 359 | determined to be at the active console using <ulink
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| 360 | url="&blfs-wiki;/linux-pam">pam_console</ulink>. If you are not set
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| 361 | up to use <xref linkend="linux-pam"/> and <ulink
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| 362 | url="&blfs-wiki;/linux-pam">pam_console</ulink>, create a group that
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| 363 | is allowed to invoke <application>HAL</application> methods with the
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| 364 | following commands:</para>
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| 365 |
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| 366 | <screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 61 halusers &&
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| 367 | cat > /etc/dbus-1/system.d/halusers.conf << "EOF"
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| 368 | <literal><!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
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| 369 | "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
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| 370 | "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
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| 371 | <busconfig>
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| 372 |
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| 373 | <!-- Allow users in the halusers group invoke HAL methods -->
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| 374 | <policy group="halusers">
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| 375 | <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement"/>
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| 376 | <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel"/>
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| 377 | <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/>
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| 378 | <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/>
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| 379 | </policy>
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| 380 |
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| 381 | </busconfig></literal>
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| 382 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 383 |
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| 384 | <para>Now add the users you would like to the <systemitem
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| 385 | class="groupname">halusers</systemitem> group to use
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| 386 | <application>HAL</application>. Note that these users still need
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| 387 | to have appropriate permissions to access the devices that
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| 388 | <application>HAL</application> will invoke its methods on.</para>
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| 389 |
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| 390 | <para>With the above configuration in place, authorized users now
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| 391 | have the ability to unmount disk partitions mounted at non-standard
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| 392 | locations such as <filename class='directory'>/pub</filename>. If
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| 393 | you'd like to restrict this policy to only drives which are considered
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| 394 | removable or hotpluggable, add the following configuration file as
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| 395 | the <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 396 |
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| 397 | <screen role="root"><userinput>cat > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/no-fixed-drives.fdi << "EOF"
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| 398 | <literal><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
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| 399 |
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| 400 | <!-- Don't allow HAL methods on disks that are not
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| 401 | removable or hotpluggable -->
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| 402 |
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| 403 | <deviceinfo version="0.2">
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| 404 | <device>
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| 405 | <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
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| 406 | <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="false">
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| 407 | <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
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| 408 | </match>
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| 409 | </match>
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| 410 | </device>
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| 411 | </deviceinfo></literal>
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| 412 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 413 |
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| 414 | <para><application>HAL</application> only provides the methods such
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| 415 | as Mount() to act on hardware. In order to take advantage of these,
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| 416 | a <application>HAL</application> event handler such as
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| 417 | <xref linkend="gnome-volume-manager"/> or <ulink
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| 418 | url="http://ivman.sourceforge.net/">Ivman</ulink> should be
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| 419 | installed.</para>
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| 420 |
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| 421 | <!-- Following note is only relevant for HAL-0.5.7.x.
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| 422 | Fixed upstream. -->
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| 423 | <note>
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| 424 | <para><application>HAL</application> will ignore any devices listed
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| 425 | in <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> for the purpose of automounting.
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| 426 | You must remove any listings for devices that you would like
|
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| 427 | automounted such as CD-ROMs or USB keys.</para>
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| 428 | </note>
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| 429 |
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| 430 | <!-- This section commented out for now until it is determined what should
|
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| 431 | be placed in this section
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| 432 |
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| 433 | FIXME: I think this information is still relevant with the
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| 434 | exception of its interaction with /etc/fstab. Needs investigation.
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| 435 |
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| 436 | <para>No configuration is necessary for the majority of installations
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| 437 | on systems configured with ISO-8859-1 compatible locales. The defaults
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| 438 | should work just fine. For some installations, tweaking of the various
|
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| 439 | policies may be required. One such configuration change necessary in some
|
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| 440 | locales is identifying the <option>iocharset</option> and
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| 441 | <option>codepage</option> variables in the
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| 442 | <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> entries created by the
|
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| 443 | <command>fstab-sync</command> program. If changes are required to the
|
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| 444 | configuration so that your locale is properly identified in the entries
|
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| 445 | created in <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>, issue the following commands
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| 446 | as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user (you must
|
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| 447 | substitute the proper data for the
|
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| 448 | <replaceable><iocharset></replaceable> and
|
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| 449 | <replaceable><codepage></replaceable> info):</para>
|
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| 450 |
|
|---|
| 451 | <screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /etc/hal/fdi/policy/30user &&
|
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| 452 | cat > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/30user/30user-policy.fdi << "EOF"
|
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| 453 | <literal><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!- -*- SGML -*- ->
|
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| 454 |
|
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| 455 | <!-
|
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| 456 | This file is used to set custom options to the HAL policy settings.
|
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| 457 | The default policy settings are defined in files contained in the
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| 458 | /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy directories. User defined customizations
|
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| 459 | should be in files contained in the /etc/hal/fdi/policy directories.
|
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| 460 | ->
|
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| 461 |
|
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| 462 | <deviceinfo version="0.2">
|
|---|
| 463 |
|
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| 464 | <device>
|
|---|
| 465 | <match key="info.udi"
|
|---|
| 466 | string="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer">
|
|---|
| 467 |
|
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| 468 | <!- Set the iocharset variable in the /etc/fstab file entry ->
|
|---|
| 469 | <merge
|
|---|
| 470 | key="storage.policy.default.mount_option.iocharset=<replaceable><iocharset></replaceable>"
|
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| 471 | type="bool">true</merge>
|
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| 472 |
|
|---|
| 473 | <!- Set the codepage variable in the /etc/fstab file entry ->
|
|---|
| 474 | <merge
|
|---|
| 475 | key="storage.policy.default.mount_option.codepage=<replaceable><codepage></replaceable>"
|
|---|
| 476 | type="bool">true</merge>
|
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| 477 |
|
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| 478 | </match>
|
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| 479 | </device>
|
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| 480 |
|
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| 481 | </deviceinfo></literal>
|
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| 482 |
|
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| 483 | EOF</userinput></screen>
|
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| 484 |
|
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| 485 | <note>
|
|---|
| 486 | <para>The previous commands created a file named
|
|---|
| 487 | <filename>/etc/hal/fdi/policy/30user/30user-policy.fdi</filename>. To
|
|---|
| 488 | ease readability of the file, put everything between the
|
|---|
| 489 | <angle brackets> and <merge></merge> tags on one
|
|---|
| 490 | line. You must have at least one space character
|
|---|
| 491 | where the ends of the lines were. The file would then look like this
|
|---|
| 492 | (trimmed at the top and bottom for brevity):</para>
|
|---|
| 493 |
|
|---|
| 494 | <screen><literal> <device>
|
|---|
| 495 | <match key="<replaceable><text></replaceable>" string="<replaceable><text></replaceable>">
|
|---|
| 496 |
|
|---|
| 497 | <!- Set the iocharset variable in the /etc/fstab file entry ->
|
|---|
| 498 | <merge key="<replaceable><iocharset text></replaceable>" type="bool">true</merge>
|
|---|
| 499 |
|
|---|
| 500 | <!- Set the codepage variable in the /etc/fstab file entry ->
|
|---|
| 501 | <merge key="<replaceable><codepage text></replaceable>" type="bool">true</merge>
|
|---|
| 502 |
|
|---|
| 503 | </match>
|
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| 504 | </device></literal></screen>
|
|---|
| 505 |
|
|---|
| 506 | </note>
|
|---|
| 507 |
|
|---|
| 508 | -->
|
|---|
| 509 |
|
|---|
| 510 | </sect3>
|
|---|
| 511 |
|
|---|
| 512 | <sect3 id="hal-init">
|
|---|
| 513 | <title>Boot Script</title>
|
|---|
| 514 |
|
|---|
| 515 | <para>To automatically start the <command>hald</command> daemon
|
|---|
| 516 | when the system is rebooted, install the
|
|---|
| 517 | <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/haldaemon</filename>
|
|---|
| 518 | bootscript from the
|
|---|
| 519 | <xref linkend="bootscripts"/> package.</para>
|
|---|
| 520 |
|
|---|
| 521 | <indexterm zone="hal hal-init">
|
|---|
| 522 | <primary sortas="f-haldaemon">haldaemon</primary>
|
|---|
| 523 | </indexterm>
|
|---|
| 524 |
|
|---|
| 525 | <!-- Not sure if this is still required any longer as the HAL daemon
|
|---|
| 526 | used to hang if you didn't first restart the DBUS daemon. This is
|
|---|
| 527 | not the case any longer, but it still seems that D-Bus should be
|
|---|
| 528 | restarted, as the hald.conf file is read by the D-BUS daemon.
|
|---|
| 529 | Leaving it in for now until it is positively confirmed it is not
|
|---|
| 530 | required. -->
|
|---|
| 531 |
|
|---|
| 532 | <important>
|
|---|
| 533 | <para>If the system-wide <application>D-BUS</application> daemon was
|
|---|
| 534 | running during the installation of <application>HAL</application>,
|
|---|
| 535 | ensure you stop and restart the <application>D-BUS</application>
|
|---|
| 536 | daemon before attempting to start the <command>hald</command>
|
|---|
| 537 | daemon.</para>
|
|---|
| 538 | </important>
|
|---|
| 539 |
|
|---|
| 540 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install-haldaemon</userinput></screen>
|
|---|
| 541 |
|
|---|
| 542 | </sect3>
|
|---|
| 543 |
|
|---|
| 544 | </sect2>
|
|---|
| 545 |
|
|---|
| 546 | <sect2 role="content">
|
|---|
| 547 | <title>Contents</title>
|
|---|
| 548 |
|
|---|
| 549 | <segmentedlist>
|
|---|
| 550 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
|
|---|
| 551 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
|
|---|
| 552 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
|
|---|
| 553 |
|
|---|
| 554 | <seglistitem>
|
|---|
| 555 | <seg>hal-device, hal-device-manager, hal-disable-polling,
|
|---|
| 556 | hal-find-by-capability, hal-find-by-property, hal-get-property,
|
|---|
| 557 | hal-set-property, hal-is-caller-locked-out, hal-lock, hald and
|
|---|
| 558 | lshal</seg>
|
|---|
| 559 | <seg>libhal.{so,a} and libhal-storage,{so,a}</seg>
|
|---|
| 560 | <seg>/etc/hal, /usr/include/hal, /usr/lib/hal,
|
|---|
| 561 | /usr/share/doc/hal-&hal-version;, /usr/share/hal, /var/cache/hald,
|
|---|
| 562 | /var/lib/hal, and /var/run/hald</seg>
|
|---|
| 563 | </seglistitem>
|
|---|
| 564 | </segmentedlist>
|
|---|
| 565 |
|
|---|
| 566 | <variablelist>
|
|---|
| 567 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
|
|---|
| 568 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
|
|---|
| 569 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
|
|---|
| 570 |
|
|---|
| 571 | <varlistentry id="hal-device">
|
|---|
| 572 | <term><command>hal-device</command></term>
|
|---|
| 573 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 574 | <para>is used to create, remove or show a
|
|---|
| 575 | <application>HAL</application> device.</para>
|
|---|
| 576 | <indexterm zone="hal hal-device">
|
|---|
| 577 | <primary sortas="b-hal-device">hal-device</primary>
|
|---|
| 578 | </indexterm>
|
|---|
| 579 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 580 | </varlistentry>
|
|---|
| 581 |
|
|---|
| 582 | <varlistentry id="hal-device-manager">
|
|---|
| 583 | <term><command>hal-device-manager</command></term>
|
|---|
| 584 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 585 | <para>shows a graphical representation of all the devices
|
|---|
| 586 | <application>HAL</application> is aware of. This program requires
|
|---|
| 587 | <xref linkend="hal-runtime-dependencies"/>. Here is a <ulink
|
|---|
| 588 | url="http://cvs.freedesktop.org/*checkout*/hal/hal/doc/spec/hal-devices1.png">
|
|---|
| 589 | screenshot</ulink> of <command>hal-device-manager</command>
|
|---|
| 590 | communicating with the HAL daemon and displaying a tree of device
|
|---|
| 591 | objects. The shown properties in the screenshot are for a device
|
|---|
| 592 | object representing a hard disk.</para>
|
|---|
| 593 | <indexterm zone="hal hal-device-manager">
|
|---|
| 594 | <primary sortas="b-hal-device-manager">hal-device-manager</primary>
|
|---|
| 595 | </indexterm>
|
|---|
| 596 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 597 | </varlistentry>
|
|---|
| 598 |
|
|---|
| 599 | <varlistentry id="hal-disable-polling">
|
|---|
| 600 | <term><command>hal-disable-polling</command></term>
|
|---|
| 601 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 602 | <para>can be used to to disable and enable media detection on
|
|---|
| 603 | drives with removable storage.</para>
|
|---|
| 604 | <indexterm zone="hal hal-disable-polling">
|
|---|
| 605 | <primary sortas="b-hal-disable-polling">hal-disable-polling</primary>
|
|---|
| 606 | </indexterm>
|
|---|
| 607 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 608 | </varlistentry>
|
|---|
| 609 |
|
|---|
| 610 | <varlistentry id="hal-find-by-capability">
|
|---|
| 611 | <term><command>hal-find-by-capability</command></term>
|
|---|
| 612 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 613 | <para>prints the Unique Device Identifiers for
|
|---|
| 614 | <application>HAL</application> device objects of a given
|
|---|
| 615 | capability.</para>
|
|---|
| 616 | <indexterm zone="hal hal-find-by-capability">
|
|---|
| 617 | <primary sortas="b-hal-find-by-capability">hal-find-by-capability</primary>
|
|---|
| 618 | </indexterm>
|
|---|
| 619 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 620 | </varlistentry>
|
|---|
| 621 |
|
|---|
| 622 | <varlistentry id="hal-find-by-property">
|
|---|
| 623 | <term><command>hal-find-by-property</command></term>
|
|---|
| 624 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 625 | <para>prints the Unique Device Identifiers for
|
|---|
| 626 | <application>HAL</application> device objects where a given property
|
|---|
| 627 | assumes a given value.</para>
|
|---|
| 628 | <indexterm zone="hal hal-find-by-property">
|
|---|
| 629 | <primary sortas="b-hal-find-by-property">hal-find-by-property</primary>
|
|---|
| 630 | </indexterm>
|
|---|
| 631 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 632 | </varlistentry>
|
|---|
| 633 |
|
|---|
| 634 | <varlistentry id="hal-get-property">
|
|---|
| 635 | <term><command>hal-get-property</command></term>
|
|---|
| 636 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 637 | <para>retrieves a property from a device.</para>
|
|---|
| 638 | <indexterm zone="hal hal-get-property">
|
|---|
| 639 | <primary sortas="b-hal-get-property">hal-get-property</primary>
|
|---|
| 640 | </indexterm>
|
|---|
| 641 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 642 | </varlistentry>
|
|---|
| 643 |
|
|---|
| 644 | <varlistentry id="hal-set-property">
|
|---|
| 645 | <term><command>hal-set-property</command></term>
|
|---|
| 646 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 647 | <para>attempts to set property for a device. Note that, due to
|
|---|
| 648 | security considerations, it may not be possible to set a
|
|---|
| 649 | property.</para>
|
|---|
| 650 | <indexterm zone="hal hal-set-property">
|
|---|
| 651 | <primary sortas="b-hal-set-property">hal-set-property</primary>
|
|---|
| 652 | </indexterm>
|
|---|
| 653 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 654 | </varlistentry>
|
|---|
| 655 |
|
|---|
| 656 | <varlistentry id="hal-is-caller-locked-out">
|
|---|
| 657 | <term><command>hal-is-caller-locked-out</command></term>
|
|---|
| 658 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 659 | <para>determines if a specific caller is locked out of a specific
|
|---|
| 660 | <application>D-Bus</application> interface on a specific device.</para>
|
|---|
| 661 | <indexterm zone="hal hal-is-caller-locked-out">
|
|---|
| 662 | <primary sortas="b-hal-is-caller-locked-out">hal-is-caller-locked-out</primary>
|
|---|
| 663 | </indexterm>
|
|---|
| 664 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 665 | </varlistentry>
|
|---|
| 666 |
|
|---|
| 667 | <varlistentry id="hald">
|
|---|
| 668 | <term><command>hald</command></term>
|
|---|
| 669 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 670 | <para>is the <application>HAL</application> daemon program.</para>
|
|---|
| 671 | <indexterm zone="hal hald">
|
|---|
| 672 | <primary sortas="b-hald">hald</primary>
|
|---|
| 673 | </indexterm>
|
|---|
| 674 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 675 | </varlistentry>
|
|---|
| 676 |
|
|---|
| 677 | <varlistentry id="lshal">
|
|---|
| 678 | <term><command>lshal</command></term>
|
|---|
| 679 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 680 | <para>shows all devices and their properties. If the --monitor option
|
|---|
| 681 | is given then the device list and all devices are monitored for
|
|---|
| 682 | changes.</para>
|
|---|
| 683 | <indexterm zone="hal lshal">
|
|---|
| 684 | <primary sortas="b-lshal">lshal</primary>
|
|---|
| 685 | </indexterm>
|
|---|
| 686 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 687 | </varlistentry>
|
|---|
| 688 |
|
|---|
| 689 | <varlistentry id="libhal">
|
|---|
| 690 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libhal.{so,a}</filename></term>
|
|---|
| 691 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 692 | <para>contains the API functions required by the
|
|---|
| 693 | <application>HAL</application> programs.</para>
|
|---|
| 694 | <indexterm zone="hal libhal">
|
|---|
| 695 | <primary sortas="c-libhal">libhal.{so,a}</primary>
|
|---|
| 696 | </indexterm>
|
|---|
| 697 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 698 | </varlistentry>
|
|---|
| 699 |
|
|---|
| 700 | <varlistentry id="libhal-storage">
|
|---|
| 701 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libhal-storage.{so,a}</filename></term>
|
|---|
| 702 | <listitem>
|
|---|
| 703 | <para>contains the API functions required by the
|
|---|
| 704 | <application>HAL</application> storage and volume utility
|
|---|
| 705 | programs.</para>
|
|---|
| 706 | <indexterm zone="hal libhal-storage">
|
|---|
| 707 | <primary sortas="c-libhal-storage">libhal-storage.{so,a}</primary>
|
|---|
| 708 | </indexterm>
|
|---|
| 709 | </listitem>
|
|---|
| 710 | </varlistentry>
|
|---|
| 711 |
|
|---|
| 712 | </variablelist>
|
|---|
| 713 |
|
|---|
| 714 | </sect2>
|
|---|
| 715 |
|
|---|
| 716 | </sect1>
|
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