Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:02:33 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Effing HAL Message-ID: <20091030110233.000027f8@unknown> In-Reply-To: <eeef1a4c0910291615x288a8a2nacdd335fb0dca410@mail.gmail.com> References: <eeef1a4c0910291455y6cee991md9f8c7f2824e54ca@mail.gmail.com> <BA9912258E343B9627BA075A@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <eeef1a4c0910291615x288a8a2nacdd335fb0dca410@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:15:08 +0000 Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, thanks for that. I knew about that file, but don't often read > it. There's even more to the saga - Xkblayout doesn't work. This > whole HAL thing stinks horribly. IF X is built with HAL basically > certain options specified in xorg.conf no longer work. HAL thinks it > knows best. But it doesn't, cos it's broken. Xkblayout doesn't work because you need to use fdi files now. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=948154 has some details - essentially you need to put some XML in /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/ that tells it what layout to use. It's rather frustrating that information is scattered in forums - I couldn't see any official-looking articles on configuring it. -- Bruce Cran
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