Tony, You have to get the source package for HAL. Do something like: $ mkdir ~/hal; cd ~/hal; apt-get source hal This will download a few files and a directory (in my case hal-0.5.9). Then add my patch: (assuming you download my patch to the Desktop): $ cp ~/Desktop/68-disc_identification.patch hal-0.5.9/debian/patches Then from within tha hal-0.5.9 directory you run: $ cd hal-0.5.9; debuild -i -us -uc -b to build a binary package: the package will be called something like hal_0.5.9-1ubuntu2~feisty1ubuntu1_i386.deb in the directory above the hal-0.5.9 one. I found and then you install it using dpkg: $ cd ~/hal/ $ dpkg -i hal_0.5.9-1ubuntu2~feisty1ubuntu1_i386.deb
I think that is sufficient, but at the build stage you may well find you are missing a whole load of tools that you will need to add using either apt-get or Synaptic, things like the debian support tools package, like debuild for example, that I think is in package debian-builder. David >From: Tony Sweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Bug 109763 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Bug 109763] Re: Insert a rewriteable or blank disc when >tryingto use CD/DVD Creator, with blank disc in CDR drive >Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:44:56 -0000 > >David C wrote: > > Tom, > > I think it likely that the patch I had attached to my previous message >(entitled Additional disc identification) provides a fix for problem with >old drives. > > The issue is that newer drives have a command that returns the size of >the disc, for older drives this command is missing, but you can probe the >disc itself to get the information. > > This is what my patch to hal does. > > It is in a format that you can just drop it into the debian/patches >directory of HAL and then rebuild and re-install it. > > I have sent it to the HAL developers but so far there have been no >comments from them. > > > > I tested it on my LG drive using HAL 0.5.9, but I expect the patch would > > work with 0.5.8 - the only reason I upgraded was in the hope that this > > problem would have been resolved, and I don't think the affected file > > has been touched for a couple of years. > > > > It would be good to get your feedback on the patch as this would double > > the number of devices on which it has been tested! > > > > David > > > > >David, > >I'd gladly give this a try, but I don't know the first thing about >building Linux from source. I've been building FreeBSD and XFree86 from >source for years, and have build the GNU toolchain more times than I >care to think about. But I don''t know where to start with Linux. The >documentation doesn't seem geared to someone who just wants to get the >source and build it (or I'm looking in all the wrong places). If you >could give me a pointer, or better yet a definitive recipe for building >HAL, I'd love to give this a go. The Sony drive I was going to swap in >turned out to be dying, so I have a day or so to kill waiting for a >replacement drive which is ultimately destined for the donor machine >anyway, so I have a real incentive to get this working. > >Tony. > >-- >Insert a rewriteable or blank disc when trying to use CD/DVD Creator, with >blank disc in CDR drive >https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109763 >You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber >of the bug. _________________________________________________________________ The next generation of Hotmail is here! http://www.newhotmail.co.uk -- Insert a rewriteable or blank disc when trying to use CD/DVD Creator, with blank disc in CDR drive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109763 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
