Recommended update for hal
SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for hal
This update to hal resolves the following issues:
* Fix handling of the video switch key for BIOS'es of
certain vendors built in year 2012 or later (bnc#762478)
* Set a delay for polling battery devices and adds a
forcefully update of the battery status when AC is plugged
in or out (bnc#745979)
* Disable WLAN key code for 2011/2012 HP models for
avoiding the conflict of hard and soft rfkill state changes
* Respect the "cpufreq" boot parameter when restarting
the HAL daemon, preventing the load of CPU frequency
modules when they are not wanted (bnc#750484).
https://bugzilla.novell.com/745277
https://bugzilla.novell.com/745979
https://bugzilla.novell.com/749336
https://bugzilla.novell.com/752251
https://bugzilla.novell.com/756332
https://bugzilla.novell.com/762478
http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=560fc5583478fef5fa23e3db091a8a31
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-RU-2012:0711-1 |
| Rating: | moderate |
| References: | #745277 #745979 #749336 #752251 #756332 #762478 |
| Affected Products: |
An update that has 6 recommended fixes can now be installed.
Description:
This update to hal resolves the following issues:
* Fix handling of the video switch key for BIOS'es of
certain vendors built in year 2012 or later (bnc#762478)
* Set a delay for polling battery devices and adds a
forcefully update of the battery status when AC is plugged
in or out (bnc#745979)
* Disable WLAN key code for 2011/2012 HP models for
avoiding the conflict of hard and soft rfkill state changes
* Respect the "cpufreq" boot parameter when restarting
the HAL daemon, preventing the load of CPU frequency
modules when they are not wanted (bnc#750484).
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2:
zypper in -t patch sdksp2-hal-6332 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware:
zypper in -t patch slessp2-hal-6332 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2:
zypper in -t patch slessp2-hal-6332 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2:
zypper in -t patch sledsp2-hal-6332
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):
- hal-devel-0.5.12-23.68.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware (i586 x86_64):
- hal-0.5.12-23.68.1
- hal-doc-0.5.12-23.68.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware (x86_64):
- hal-32bit-0.5.12-23.68.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):
- hal-0.5.12-23.68.1
- hal-doc-0.5.12-23.68.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (ppc64 s390x x86_64):
- hal-32bit-0.5.12-23.68.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (ia64):
- hal-x86-0.5.12-23.68.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (i586 x86_64):
- hal-0.5.12-23.68.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (x86_64):
- hal-32bit-0.5.12-23.68.1