* Be less conservation about which device nodes are mountable volumes
These patches were tested together by mezz, and individually by
Andriy Gapon and Andreas Wetzel respectively.
This allows hal to properly reflect the correct access device, and prevents
X from opening the same device twice
* Use the less expensive clock_gettime() instead of gettimeofday() in hal's
pollers [1]
* Add support for locking storage devices
* Fix the path to the installed documentation
Submitted by: jkim [1]
Tested by: jkim, cokane, and a host of others
FreeBSD. The official GNOME 2.22 release notes can be found at
http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/ . On the FreeBSD front,
this release features an updated hal port with support for video4linux
devices, DRM (Direct Rendering), and better support of removable media. Work
is also underway to tie webkit more closely into GNOME. As part of the
GNOME 2.22 upgrade, GStreamer received a rather large upgrade as well.
Be sure to consult UPDATING on the proper steps to upgrade all of your
GNOME ports.
This release would not have been possible without the contributions and
testing efforts of the following people:
Pawel Worach
kan
edwin
Peter Ulrich Kruppa
J. W. Ballantine
Yasuda Keisuke
Andriy Gapon
* Be gentler when probing removable media USB and SCSI devices as to not
spam the console with media read failures where there is no media inserted.
This will aleviate the problem with USB/SCSI floppy drives and card
readers. [1]
Submitted by: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> [1]
* Remove dependency on isoinfo, and detect disc type internally. [1]
* Adapt patch from Linux's hal backend to add media changer support and
prevent hal from trying to treat tape changers like CD drivers. [2]
PR: 118273 [2]
Submitted by: bland [1]
truckman [2]
volume label as default mountpoint. Using the UTF-8 volume label as
mountpoint can be problematic with legacy locales.
Reported by: Andrew Muhametshin <andrew@dobrohot.org>, lofi
* Add a new utility function, hf_str_no_slashes(), that converts '/' into '_'
for purposes of UDI constructions. UDI path components cannot contain
embedded slashes, and a trailing slash will cause hald to crash. [1]
* Ensure that UDIs of ATA and SCSI devices are unique. [2]
* Do not re-probe disks that are managed by hald-addon-storage since that
will result in a double-probe and data corruption. In particular, this
fixes a problem with CD unmounting when ATAPICAM is enabled. [3]
Reported by: Chess Griffin <chessg@gmail.com> [1]
sajd on #freebsd-gnome [3]
Submitted by: jylefort [2]
Reviewed by: jylefort [3]
* Fix an assertion in hal-device [1]
* Fix detection of disc volumes on FreeBSD 5.X
* Fix the mapping of SCSI to atapi devices [2]
Obtained from: HAL git [1]
Submitted by: jylefort [2]
* If atapicam is enabled, use the CAM device node instead of the ATAPI
device node to access disc devices. The previous behavior can be restored
by following instructions in the README.freebsd file. [1]
* Flesh out the list of supported mount options for the vaious file systems
Submitted by: jylefort [1]
* Fix support for ATAPI devices under FreeBSD 5.X [1]
* Add more mount options for FAT and NTFS file systems
A special thanks to Nigel Wohlers <nigel@eyede.com> who provided a machine
for testing the 5.X patches.
Reported by: lofi
* Fix some 64-bit compile warnings
* Turn two assertions into additional conditional checks to prevent potential
hald crashes when switching disc media
* Shutdown hald on deinstall to prevent two halds from running on restart
* Account for ACPI BIOSes that report a rate of 0xffff while they are still
initializing (adapted from the HAL linux backend)
* Add support for two new net properties: net.freebsd.ifindex and
net.80203.rate
* Add support for the MBREXT GEOM class
* Create /media for 6.1 and 5.5 users that do not have this directory in
mtree
* Use the system libvolume_id
* Fix some bashims in the configure script
* Merge the latest HAL ids code from HAL git
* Add support for the pnp.description property
* If hw.acpi.lid_switch_state is set to NONE, set the info.ignore property on
the lid button to TRUE
* Actually introduce the fix for treating blank discs as volumes. This
truly fixes nautilus-cd-burner
* Add support for the new volume.partition properties
* Add more GEOM support for SUN, APPLE, and GPT classes
Thanks to jylefort for reviewing some of these patches, and a bunch of
testers for putting the changes through their paces.
* The volume probing helper can take up to a minute to run the isoinfo
command against data DVDs, so bump the timeout up to 60 seconds.
* Fix a spurious warning when running lshal
Add two new properties to SCSI block devices. The first is
block.freebsd.cam_path which is a bus,target,lun path to a SCSI device.
This is needed by tools such as cdrecord, and by adding a private freebsd
property, it is much easier to get apps like nautilus-cd-burner working.
The second property is block.freebsd.atapi_cam_device. This property is
actually attached to ATAPI CAM devices, and denotes the CAM block device
associated with this ATAPI block device. This may be useful for programs
that can only operate with CAM-compliant devices.
Finally, update the volume probing code so that blank discs are treated as
volumes. This is sort of crude. We basically say a disc is blank is it
is a disc and contains no data and no audio.
With all of these changes, plus a minor change to nautilus-cd-burner, n-c-b
now works again on FreeBSD.
amount of work by the FreeBSD GNOME Team and our testers.
On top of the usual GNOME update, we have taken this opportunity to move
GNOME from X11BASE to LOCALBASE. This means roughly 600 ports NOT part of
the GNOME Desktop also need to be changed. The bulk of the move was carried
out by ahze, mezz, and pav, but it would not have been possible without
cooperation from the FreeBSD KDE team who worked with us to make sure
GNOME and KDE can still coexist happily. We would also like to send a
shout out to kris and pointyhat for putting up with multiple test runs
until we got something that was solid.
Back to GNOME 2.16. This release brings a huge amount of new functionality
to FreeBSD. The standard release notes can be read at
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/ . But on top of what you will read there,
jylefort and marcus have completed work on a port of HAL to FreeBSD. This
will allow FreeBSD to take advantage of closer hardware interaction such
as auto-mounting CD-ROMs, USB drives, and music players; auto-playing
audio CDs; and managing laptop power consumption.
But where would this all be without our loyal testers and contributors?
Therefore, the FreeBSD GNOME team would like to thank the following users:
Phillip Neumann <pneumann@gmail.com>
tmclaugh
mux
Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
chinsan
Thomas <freebsdlists@bsdunix.ch>
Brian Gruber <knightbg@yahoo.com>
Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com>
Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com>
Pascal Hofstee <caelian@gmail.com>
Yasuda Keisuke <kysd@po.harenet.ne.jp>
backyard <backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com>
Andris Raugulis <endrju@null.lv> <endrju@null.lv>
Eric L. Chen <d9364104@mail.nchu.edu.tw>
Pawel Worach <pawel.worach@gmail.com>
QuiRK on #freebsd-gnome
Shane Bell <decept0@gmail.com>
luigi
sajd on #freebsd-gnome
sat
Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com>
kaeru on #freebsd-gnome
crsd_ via irc.freenode.org/#FreeBSD-GNOME
Joel Diaz <joeldiaz@mac.com>
Enjoy!
Approved by: portmgr (implicit, kris)
