On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Meir Kriheli wrote: > Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > >> Aharon Schkolnik <[email protected]> writes: > >>> Actually, I meant to ask about setting up Hebrew using xorg.conf, > >> > >> Modern systems don't have xorg.conf - Xorg probes the system on > >> startup, generates the necessary parameters, and "just works". I have > >> 2 Fedora 10 computers with different video cards, etc. - neither has > >> an xorg.conf. > > > > Yes, you're right, but if you want to set up Hebrew keyboard at the X > > level, you need a xorg.conf file. That's how I have done it in the past. > > Not if you're using Xorg's input hotplugging, hal is responsible for > that, without the need for xorg.conf.
Very interesting ! How did you generate fdi file ? > Here's my > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- --> > <deviceinfo version="0.2"> > <device> > <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keymap"> > <append key="info.callouts.add" > type="strlist">hal-setup-keymap</append> > </match> > > <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys"> > <merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">xorg</merge> > > <!-- If we're using Linux, we use evdev by default (falling back to > keyboard otherwise). --> > <merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">keyboard</merge> > <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" > string="Linux"> > <merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge> > </match> > > <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us,il</merge> > <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">,lyx</merge> > <merge key="input.xkb.options" > type="string">grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle</merge> > </match> > </device> > </deviceinfo> > > >> You can generate the file using Xorg --configure or sth of the kind, > >> and if you have it Xorg will use it. I did not feel the need. > > > > I did that, but wasn't able to get the Hebrew keyboard stuff working. > > Cheers > -- > Meir Kriheli -- The day is short, and the work is great, | Aharon Schkolnik and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | is great, and the Master of the house is | [email protected] impatient. - Ethics Of The Fathers Ch. 2 | 054 3344135 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
