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David W. Hodgins

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More options Aug 1 2008, 4:29 pm

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From: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodg...@nomail.afraid.org>

Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:29:01 -0400

Local: Fri, Aug 1 2008 4:29 pm

Subject: Re: HAL and USB-Storage devices

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On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:03:10 -0400, ArameFarpado <a-farpado.s...@netcabo.pt> wrote:
> this is puzzling me... looks like HAL remembers that those old pens wore
> allready on the system when he was not controling them, and now he is
> ignoring them.

The haldaemon only handles devices it knows how to handle. In Mandriva,
these are defined in
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-card-readers.fdi
using the model, or drive type or vendor/device ids.

I have a usb memory stick that is not recognized by any of these matches.
In order to have haldaemon recognize it as a memory stick, I've created ...
[root@hodgins 10freedesktop]# cat /etc/hal/fdi/policy/my.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<match key="storage.bus" string="usb">
<match key="@storage.originating_device:usb.vendor_id" int="0x090c">
<match key="@storage.originating_device:usb.product_id" int="0x1000">
<merge key="storage.drive_type" type="string">memory_stick</merge>
</match>
</match>
</match>

</device>
</deviceinfo>

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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