From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 2 16:40:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B047106572F for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 16:40:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93EF88FC08 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 16:40:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.14.4/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id o72GeanL042104 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:40:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 168 Received: from niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A9289DE6 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:40:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix, from userid 2005) id D2685416C; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:40:43 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:40:43 +0000 From: Michel Talon To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100802184043.GA20410@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Miltered: at jchkmail.jussieu.fr with ID 4C56F504.00D by Joe's j-chkmail (http : // j-chkmail dot ensmp dot fr)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 4C56F504.00D/134.157.10.1/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/ Subject: Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:40:39 -0000 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 evdev evdev kbd evdev pc105 fr 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