[SM-Discuss] Reclaim your sanity from Xorg and HAL
Juuso Alasuutari
iuso at sourcemage.org
Fri Nov 21 10:18:05 EST 2008
I did it! After the whole Xorg/HAL/evdev mess getting on my nerves for
quite a while I figured out the Perfect(TM) solution. In other words,
here's how to make your keyboard and mouse work properly with
xorg-server 1.5.3.
1) Remove all mouse and keyboard configs from /etc/X11/xorg.conf. This
consists of:
- Removing the "InputDevice" entries from the "ServerLayout" section,
and
- removing the "InputDevice" sections themselves (their identifiers are
"Keyboard" and "Mouse").
2) Remove this line from /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
3) In /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi, replace this line:
<merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">base</merge>
With this:
<merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">evdev</merge>
This tells Xorg to map the keycodes sent by evdev according to
/usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/evdev instead of the older
/usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86.
If you also want to use a non-us keymap, also replace this line:
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us</merge>
With something like this:
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">fi</merge>
4) Restart X and hald.
Tell me if anything fails after following this advice.
Juuso
More information about the SM-Discuss
mailing list