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Date:      Fri, 08 May 2009 09:05:05 +0400
From:      Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
To:        Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems after upgrading to xorg-7.4_1
Message-ID:  <69401662@bb.ipt.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200905072343.46922.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> (Mike Clarke's message of "Thu\, 7 May 2009 23\:43\:46 %2B0100")
References:  <200905072343.46922.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>

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On Thu, 7 May 2009 23:43:46 +0100 Mike Clarke wrote:

> The second problem is that when I revert to the nv driver X treats my UK 
> keyboard as a US one, even though it functions correctly as a UK 
> keyboard in console mode before starting X.

> The original config file created by "X -configure" didn't detect my 
> keyboard type and generated the following keyboard section:

> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
> EndSection

> Then I added the following lines from my previous config file:

>     Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
>     Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
>     Option         "XkbLayout" "gb"

New xorg uses hal by default.

You have two options: either use hal [1] (i.e. start dbus and hald while
booting) or not use it (then you should tweak xorg.conf). Either way
please read recent freebsd-x11@ mail list archieves to understand what's
up and what to do.

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2009-April/008185.html


WBR
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Boris Samorodov (bsam)
Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP
FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve



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