On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 08:19, lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > > The keyboard layout is different on the console because Xmodmap is > ineffective on the console
Not at all, it works very well in my experience >... And how´s that the other way round: > When you modify the keyboard layout on the console, will you have the > same layount for X11? Indeed >> > Perhaps it works when I disable hald? What愀 hald good for, anyway? It >> > only makes things unconfigurable, but does it have any advantages? Is >> > it some sort of virus that has been ported from windoze? >> >> Hal was fundamentally a good idea, but had some implementation >> problems that cause them to eventually replace it with direct libudev >> access and upower and udisks (formerly devicekit-*). Squeeze's X >> uses udev instead of HAL > > Hm, I´m using testing, but hal was installed automatically because > packages depend on it. What´s it for when it´s not being used? Ugh, KDE in particular (and few others as well) have been slow to change over to udev/udisks/upower. Use aptitude in interactive mode to see hal's reverse dependencies, and which of them are installed. For example, k3b is only reason I currently have hal installed. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinzbkchfa738gnotvoj+3xnini2pgv0fkjmq...@mail.gmail.com