Comment 30 for bug 187980

I never saw this kind of hardware either, but maybe you can compare the hal behaviour on a gutsy and hardy live CD? Please boot it, then do

  sudo killall hald
  sudo hald --verbose=yes --daemon=no 2>&1|tee /tmp/hal.log

then let the output settle. Press return a few times, so that you can visually separate the new output. Then press the eject key. Does this generate any new output?

Please press Control-C and attach /tmp/hal.log here (saying which is gutsy and which is hardy). Would be interesting to compare both, I think.