Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:40:43 +0000 From: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad? Message-ID: <20100802184043.GA20410@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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I wrote:
> Of course making X to run was an exercise in pain, i had to enable HAL
> and DBUS otherwise keyboard and mouse were not recognized, the data in
> the xorg.conf were not obeyed, etc. but this was to be expected. The
> only problem i have now is that i have seen no way to configure the
> kdm greeter so that the french keyboard is recognized as french, which
> is inconvenient to type the passwd.
For reference the solution i have found is to modify some hald config
file this way:
cat /usr/local/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<!-- KVM emulates a USB graphics tablet which works in absolute
coordinate mode -->
<match key="input.product" contains="QEMU USB Tablet">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
</match>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.tablet">
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
string="Linux">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
</match>
</match>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
<!-- If we're using Linux, we use evdev by default (falling back to
keyboard otherwise). -->
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">kbd</merge>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
string="Linux">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
</match>
<merge key="input.x11_options.XkbModel" type="string">pc105</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.XkbLayout" type="string">fr</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
The modification is to add the two lines with pc105 and fr at the end
which provide a fall back for non Linux systems.
Then X starts with a french keyboard and kdm sees it. By the way to
start kdm automatically, the solution is in the FreeBSD KDE4 wiki, it is
simply to add the following to /etc/rc.conf
local_startup="${local_startup} /usr/local/kde4/etc/rc.d"
kdm4_enable="YES"
Hope this may help some poor fellow who has not followed the recent
modifications to xorg configuration closely, modifications which can be
summarized as: "Why do it simple when one can do it complex?".
--
Michel TALON
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