xorg 7.4 keyboard localisation (xorg.conf vs hal)

[Sebastien Chassot]

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 16:05 -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 12:43 -0800, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> > Robert Noland wrote:
> > >
> > > man xorg.conf search for Input...
> > >
> > >   
> > This provides absolutely no help.
> > 
> > I look at my /var/log/Xorg.0.log and it tells me nothing.  If I remove 
> > the keyboard and mouse input devices from xorg.conf, the log tells me 
> > that it is disabling all input devices and never says anything else.  
> > There is no evidence that hal does anything that X want to know about.  
> > How would I detect that my configuration file needs changing?  Is there 
> > a message in Xorg.0.log to look for?  Is there a help file somehwere 
> > which explains how to change your configuration file to allow hal to work?
> > 
> > I cannot find any information anywhere in the system to allow me to 
> > debug my problems in any way.  I want to have fully automatic 
> > configuration using whatever means will allow it.  You explanations 
> > about the mysterious behavior of hal and xorg do not give me any 
> > information I can use in any way to solve my problems.
> > 
> > >
> > > Set Options "AutoAddDevices" "off" and you have to configure everything
> > > like you used to.
> > >   
> > I WANT to use the new facilities.  Is it possible to debug my 
> > configuration problems?  Where do I start?  How do I enable this magical 
> > new world of letting hal do things for me?  What changes do I make to 
> > xorg.conf to allow this?
> 
> Ok, are you using gdm, xdm, or startx?
> 
> You need to ensure that dbus and hald are running first.  Set
> dbus_enable="YES" and hald_enable="YES" in your rc.conf.

This FAQ says to remplace dbus/hal by gnome_enable="YES"

http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome