On Mon, Apr 20 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 20 avril 2009 à 10:26 +0200, Bjørn Mork a écrit :
>> I prefer non-broken defaults. hal defaults are broken. No, the keys are
>> not always mapped to standard XF86* names. They are sometimes mapped
>> into the blue.
>>
>> See e.g. bug #504643, which explains my disappearing keys. Finding it
>> took some time, since stupid me thought "regrep KEY_RADIO /usr/share/hal".
>> would reveal any hal related problems.
>
> So, the HAL defaults are broken *for one keyboard model*. Geez, without
> HAL your function keys wouldn’t actually work at all for many models
> without jumping through incredible hoops or installing specific
> software. I can’t believe you think this should be encouraged.
Well, not just one keyboard model, to be fait. I lost my arrow
keys, and the right alt, meta, and right control, home/end page
up/down, and some keypad keys all got scrambled.
> There are bugs? Fine, let’s fix them.
I'll be happy to help.
manoj
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