Hardware Abstraction layer

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

QUESTION:
	
	Anyone out there running HAL [hardware abstraction layer]?


	http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal


YDL-4 comes with:
* dbus-0.20-4.1
* udev-024-6
* MAKEDEV-3.13.1
* mkinitd-3.35.22
* initscripts-7.48.1

but no HAL.

I have begun experimenting with HAL, but I haven't gotten very far. I
cannot get the daemon to run.

        % /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
        
                              ...
        19:05:34.980 [I] device_info.c:1160: scan_fdi_files: Processing
        file
        'sony_dsc.fdi'
        19:05:34.980 [I] device_info.c:1160: scan_fdi_files: Processing
        file
        'usb-zip-drives.fdi'
        19:05:34.981 [I] device_info.c:1160: scan_fdi_files: Processing
        file
        'storage-policy.fdi'
        19:05:34.993 [I] hald.c:81: Added device to GDL;
        udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_0.00040000:interrup
        19:05:34.993 [I] linux/osspec.c:793: handling
        /sys/devices/pci0001:10/0001:10:14.1 pci
        Segmentation fault
                             ...

Running "lspci" indicates that  hald  may be unhappy about a SCSI
controller:

        %lspci
        00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 AGP
        00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11
        [GeForce2
        MX/MX 400] (rev a1)
        0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 PCI
        0001:10:12.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): NEC Corporation IEEE 1394
        Host
        Controller (rev 01)
        0001:10:14.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic
        53c1010
        Ultra3 SCSI Adapter (rev 01)
        0001:10:14.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic
        53c1010
        Ultra3 SCSI Adapter (rev 01)
        0001:10:17.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O
        (rev 03)
        0001:10:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
        0001:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
        0002:20:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5
        Internal PCI
        0002:20:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Lucent Microelectronics FW323
        0002:20:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth
        GMAC (Sun
        GEM) (rev 01)


Thoughts???

 
-Joseph


-- 
joseph_sacco[at]comcast[dot]net