Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:08:14 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>, Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Effing HAL Message-ID: <4AEAD72E.3030304@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <20091030110233.000027f8@unknown> References: <eeef1a4c0910291455y6cee991md9f8c7f2824e54ca@mail.gmail.com> <BA9912258E343B9627BA075A@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <eeef1a4c0910291615x288a8a2nacdd335fb0dca410@mail.gmail.com> <20091030110233.000027f8@unknown>
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Bruce Cran wrote: > 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. > > You were not looking in the right place then: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
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