bn ha scritto: > Hi, > > Second thread of help with my Macbook upgrade of essentials which I > don't upgrade since a long time. > > Now I have to prepare to jump from xorg-1.3 to xorg-1.6. I've seen > already there are a lot of horror stories in the mailing list and a lot > of weird instructions about hal, evdev etc. > > Before starting, I have some pre-emptive question: > - Is using hal for xorg necessary? > - If I want xorg to use the same old config files of before, is it > enough to compile with -hal ? Is there a way to tell xorg "dynamically" > to use hal or not, so that I can check without recompiling but just by > restarting X? > - I have the keymap (an Italian Macbook keyboard) customized in the , so > that, for example, apple key works as Alt-Gr. To keep such > customizations on (which, I admit, I don't remember well where they are, > but maybe someone of you does! it was in the Gentoo Wiki but now I see > the relevant part is no more), is it again good to let xorg use xorg.conf? > - Anything else I should be aware of, like stuff to put into xorg.conf > before trying to restart X?
Ok, I updated, and (miracolously enough) xorg 1.6 + hal/evdev mostly works! Only thing I have to put back in shape is the keyboard mapping. I have seen how to force hal policy to use the IT mapping, but I lost most customizations I needed: - key F11 mimicking the middle mouse button - apple key mimicking Alt-Gr and I don't find much information on how to do this with HAL. Any hint? (Oddly enough, one of the past customizations I had, key F12=right mouse button, still works.) Thanks, M.
