On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:58:54AM +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Julien Cristau wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> in order to make input-hotplug work with non-us keyboards, we need to >> move the keymap configuration from xorg.conf to hal. >> The way this is done in Ubuntu is to have that config >> in /etc/default/console-setup, which is used for the console, and have a >> callout script which runs on hal startup and reads that file. >> >> So I'm thinking that we need to: >> - have console-setup try to read xorg.conf on initial installation, >> and get its settings from there >> - have xserver-xorg depend on console-setup >> - remove the keymap configuration from xserver-xorg.postinst and >> dexconf >> - profit! >> >> In order for d-i to use console-setup, someone also needs to work on its >> i18n. I don't know if this is a prerequisite for X depending on >> console-setup, or if we can start this right now. >> >> Thoughts? Things I forgot? > > You also need the patch for hal to allow --direct so the callout works > when hal starts: > > http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/hal/devel/hal-0.5.10-set-property-direct.patch?revision=1.1&view=markup > > otherwise looks fine :)
While you're at it, the README.Debian could probably use updating as well. (E.g., https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/297428) Bryce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
