On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:14 AM, sean <tech.j...@myfairpoint.net> wrote: > >> > Is there a repository somewhere that you can download fdi files for a > >> > device? > >> > It seems that would make things easier for all, since many people > >> > likely use the same devices in exactly or closely similar ways? > >> > > >> > I have to get my trackball working again the way I had before the > >> > upgrade. > >> > >> Not that I know of (but it's a good idea!); once you understand the > >> basic FDI syntax it is pretty easy to migrate your settings. Find the > >> device name of the trackball you want to set up in > >> /proc/bus/input/devices and then create an FDI which mimics the > >> settings you used in xorg.conf. The Ubuntu wiki has a decent little > >> tutorial on it: > >> > >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input > > > > which pretty much makes hal a bad idea. 'use hal so you don't have to > > edit files' and then have to edit hal's convoluted xml files instead of > > the simple, easy to read xorg.conf ... > > Well, I think ultimately it's part of a larger hotplugging idea and > autoconfig, not simply changing it from one format to another with no > additional reasons. Without hotplugging you needed to define > everything in xorg.conf
no, not everything. I have been switching mice on the fly with running X for years. trackball, scroll whell mouse back to trackball back to mouse. No extra entry for the trackball needed - and no hal (the trackball is retired, as is the nice, simple three-button-scroll-wheel-mouse). >but now you can skip the FDI unless you have > some customized configuration customized like a german layout with a german keyboard.. I wasn't the first nor the last one stepping into that trap. > (and even things like keyboard layout > could be set up in gnome/kde/whatever rather than in xorg.conf/FDI). which doesn't help you with the xdm/kdm/gdm login screen. > But, yes, xorg.conf is certainly more human-readable than FDI files > for sure. oooh yes.
