On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 08:11:10AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: <SNIP!>
> Of course, since those are both running on top of 118, they will both have > some other large differences over a system running WOS build 111: > > - Xorg upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6 (from X consolidation) > - xkb keytable upgrade to latest community release (from G11n consolidation) > - HAL update to inform X server of additional keyboard devices (from ON) > > Prior to the HAL changes, X would have just been opening /dev/kbd and seeing > a composite reporting of all connected keyboards, with the layout information > reported for just one of them (either the first or last connected, I forget > which). Now it opens each individually so it can correctly map the right > layouts to individual devices, for people who plug in keyboards of different > layouts. Okaaay... so why does my 1999 MacAlly USB US/English keyboard appear as Arabic?!? Am I even on the right alias for that question? Dan
