On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 11:18 -0800, Joe Kelsey wrote: > Robert Noland wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 14:10 -0800, Joe Kelsey wrote: > > > >> Sebastien Chassot wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 17:19 +0000, Daniel Bye wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 05:42:39PM +0100, Sebastien Chassot wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> Hi, > >>>>> > >>>>> I've upgrade to xorg7.4 and apparently keyboard and mouse are now > >>>>> working with hald. > >>>>> > >>>>> In xorg.conf changing "old" keybord config as no effect and I can't find > >>>>> how change it with hal. I've got /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/* but no > >>>>> *keymap* and I don't know how build such a file. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> This should get you started: > >>>> > >>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> > >>>> <deviceinfo version="0.2"> > >>>> <device> > >>>> <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard"> > >>>> <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">gb</merge> > >>>> </match> > >>>> </device> > >>>> </deviceinfo> > >>>> > >>>> Change the `gb' in the example to your local keymap name, save the file > >>>> as /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi and restart hald. > >>>> > >>>> > >> This seems to have a way to enable HAL to detect a keyboard and export > >> it to X, but what about mice? My Xorg log tells me that it is ignoring > >> my USB mouse in addition to ignoring my keyboard, so what sort of HAL > >> file do I add to enable it to find my mouse? > >> > > > > The above is only to set keyboard layout, everything to detect the > > keyboard is already present. > > > > > >> Where in HAL documentation is this information found? R. Noland seemed > >> to think it was a trivial process to make HAL do keyboards and mice? In > >> fact it is not trivial but a pain in the ass! If you intend to inflict > >> broken software on unsuspecting users you had better think through all > >> of the problems and come up with explicit solutions to all of those > >> problems so that everyone has a chance to make their systems work. > >> > > > > We (marcus and I) have gone to great pains to try and ensure that hal > > behaves correctly in pretty much all mice configurations with or without > > sysmouse. If you don't want to use hal, set AutoAddDevices off and > > configure away. > > > > > I did my best to follow ALL of the posted directions to absolutely NO AVAIL. > > When I start Xorg, it explicitly tells me it is disabling all automatic > devices and refuses to use HAL or any other detectable methosd to find > the mouse and/or keyboard. > > There is no documentation ANYWHERE about how HAL is supposed to help in > any of this. There is no documentation ANYWHERE about what exaqctly the > new Xorg is supposed to do about it. There is no documentation ANYWHERE > about the new, secret, hidden options that you can put in your xorg.conf > file to disable this whole HAL mess.
man xorg.conf search for Input... > The only documentation available ANYWHERE is the skimpy little paragraph > that says, it works or it doesn't. No explanation about why it works or > doesn't or how to determine exactly what might be wrong in your > configuration to make it work or not work. > > I would not compalin if you actually documented what you are inflicting > on us rather than just say, here it is, good luck! I understand how > difficult some of these port upgrades are, but you have to realize that > you have not provided ANY resources that anyone else can use to help > themselves figure out their issues. > > I don't want to pay you with money I do not have from a job I do not > have. You have to realize how many people may or may not have problems > due to your blithe posting of this complicated mess. Either explain how > to use HAL properly to configure X resources or disable the capability. Set Options "AutoAddDevices" "off" and you have to configure everything like you used to. robert. > Thank you for all of your effort so far. I really do appreciate it. > > /Joe > > >> There had better not be any more surprises waiting in the X 1.6 wings to > >> surprise and confound everyone again! > >> > > > > Are you going to stop paying me? You have no idea how many combinations > > of hardware and configurations for X exist, or the amount of wok that > > goes into making all of those combinations work. > > > > robert. > > > > > >>> I'll start with that > >>> > >>> Thank you > >>> > >>> > >>> Sebastien > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Robert Noland <rnol...@freebsd.org> FreeBSD
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