Sebastien Chassot wrote:
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 17:19 +0000, Daniel Bye wrote:
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 05:42:39PM +0100, Sebastien Chassot wrote:
Hi,
I've upgrade to xorg7.4 and apparently keyboard and mouse are now
working with hald.
In xorg.conf changing "old" keybord config as no effect and I can't find
how change it with hal. I've got /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/* but no
*keymap* and I don't know how build such a file.
This should get you started:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">gb</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
Change the `gb' in the example to your local keymap name, save the file
as /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi and restart hald.
This seems to have a way to enable HAL to detect a keyboard and export
it to X, but what about mice? My Xorg log tells me that it is ignoring
my USB mouse in addition to ignoring my keyboard, so what sort of HAL
file do I add to enable it to find my mouse?
Where in HAL documentation is this information found? R. Noland seemed
to think it was a trivial process to make HAL do keyboards and mice? In
fact it is not trivial but a pain in the ass! If you intend to inflict
broken software on unsuspecting users you had better think through all
of the problems and come up with explicit solutions to all of those
problems so that everyone has a chance to make their systems work.
There had better not be any more surprises waiting in the X 1.6 wings to
surprise and confound everyone again!
I'll start with that
Thank you
Sebastien
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