xorg 7.4 keyboard localisation (xorg.conf vs hal)

[Sebastien Chassot]

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.

I'll start with that

Thank you


Sebastien