xorg 7.4 keyboard localisation (xorg.conf vs hal)

[Robert Noland]

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 15:07 +0100, Sebastien Chassot wrote:
> 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"

Correct, if you using gnome, that will enable hal and dbus.

robert.

> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome
> 
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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