David Nusinow schrieb: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:53:40PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:17:10PM -0400, ext David Nusinow wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 10:02:35PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote: >>>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:02:31PM +0200, ext Michael Biebl wrote: >>>>> Whenever xorg input hotplugging kicks in, the evdev driver is used. The >>>>> kbd keyboard settings from xorg.conf are ignored and the en_US keyboard >>>>> layout is used. >>>> Yes, this should probably be fixed up, I guess. But the long-term fix >>>> is to provide an FDI file in /etc that specifies the keyboard layout. >>> My feeling is the other way around, provided that the X server is the only >>> user of this field. People already know how to edit xorg.conf, and they >>> expect it. Telling them to edit a relatively obscure file among many other >>> fdi's is more painful. There's also userspace tools that exist to help with >>> generating a xorg.conf, but nothing friendly to deal with fdi's. >> As I've said before, the X server isn't the only user of the field. :) >> Ubuntu were trying to move to cxkb a year or so ago, and the only thing >> that stopped them in the end was how huge the XKB codebase was, which >> I'm fixing (very slowly) upstream. So yeah, if having this in HAL lets >> us finaly unify console and X keymaps ... > > Ok, I missed that somehow. So it should probably be hal that generates this > and not the xserver?
The problem with hal generating the fdi file, would be that it could get out of sync, whenever you run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. We would also have to duplicate a lot of logic from xserver-xorgs postinst in hal. Generating the fdi file from within xserver-xorg seems to be more straightforward to me. If you are going to remove the input device section (generation) completely from xserver-xorgs postinst and rely completely on hal for that, then I agree hal should be the one and only place where to configure the keyboard/input. Doing the configuration at two places (xserver-xorg->xorg.conf and hal-> fdi) will really cause headaches imho. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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