HAL is not built with libsmbios
Bug #92194 reported by
Eugenia Loli-Queru
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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hal (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: hal
Your new "Brightness" applet that now ships with Gnome 2.18 does not work with Ubuntu Feisty because you have built HAL without --with-
Please recompile HAL and include this build flag. I filed a bug at gnome.org, but the maintainer told me that this is an ubuntu bug, because HAL is not built correctly. This will mean that you will have to include the libsmbios package on ubuntu by default. It's needed though, because without it the brightness applet just doesn't work.
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Support for dell backlights was integrated since hal-0.5.9.rc1, but ubuntu uses hal-0.5.8.
I tried to recompile 0.5.9.rc1 in my ubuntu, but the current patches (of 0.5.8) failed to apply and the binaries I got do not work with the gnome-power- manager. :(
I agree with Eugenia, Feisty should backport the support for dell backlights but it is not as easy as I tought.