garnome 2.17.4 / hal-0.5.8.1 patch trick?

[Peter <sw98234 hotmail com>]

When I issue make from w/in freedesktop/hal, all patches seem to apply
fine. When I manually apply the following patch, I get lots of errors!
What's the trick? I tried -F3 too.

# patch -p1 -F3 < hal-0.5.8.1-fixppc.patch 

patching file hald/linux/probing/probe-smbios.c
patching file hald/linux/osspec.c
patching file hald/linux/osspec.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 493 (offset -5 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 613 (offset -5 lines).
patching file hald/linux/pmu.c
patching file hald/linux/osspec.c
Hunk #4 FAILED at 613.
1 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file hald/linux/osspec.c.rej
patching file hald/linux/osspec.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 473.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 498.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 520.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 536.
Hunk #5 FAILED at 548.
5 out of 5 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file hald/linux/osspec.c.rej
patching file hald/linux/osspec.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 450 (offset 2 lines).
Hunk #2 FAILED at 476.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 536.
2 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file hald/linux/osspec.c.rej

-- 
Peter