RHEA-2009:0190 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Enhanced hal packages are now available.

Description

The hal package contains a daemon for collecting and maintaining
information from several sources about the hardware on a user's system,
known as the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) daemon. It supplies a list of
devices through D-BUS.

These updated hal packages add the following enhancements:

• support for triggering video resume on Nvidia G80, G90 and G100 chipsets.

With these updated packages, systems with video cards based on these
chipsets are able to resume properly after being suspended, thus resolving
the issue.

• HAL support for the special function keys on Lenovo-model laptops,

including the Lenovo T61.

• HAL support for the suspend keys on Dell Precision M4300 and M6300 computers.

Users of hal are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add
these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 445871 - [T61] Lenova T61 keymapping along with hal-keymap support

CVEs

(none)

References

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