[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.4.0.90

[Dan Nicholson]

On Dec 14, 2007 10:31 AM, S.Çağlar Onur <caglar at pardus.org.tr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 12 Ara 2007 Çar tarihinde, Daniel Stone şunları yazmıştı:
> > A quick pre-release so distros can start shipping something before 1.4.1
> > comes out, whenever that is.
>
> I have been trying to get Xorg input hotplugging to work on my laptop with
> this release and also trying to understand concepts :).
>
> I removed all input releated sections from xorg.conf and start to use
> following fdi file for getting "trq" layout instead of "us" one.
>
> # cat /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-input.fdi
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
>   <device>
>     <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
>        <merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">xorg</merge>
>        <merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">pc104</merge>
>        <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">trq</merge>
>     </match>
>   </device>
> </deviceinfo>
>
> # lshal | grep xk
>   input.xkb.layout = 'trq'  (string)
>   input.xkb.model = 'pc104'  (string)
>   input.xkb.rules = 'xorg'  (string)
>
> But i found some of my key mappings are wrong (xev reports Home maps Pause,
> Alt GR behaves like KP_Enter, Up Arrow maps Print etc.) with or without that
> fdi file.

I believe you also need to set the driver and model to evdev since
keyboard won't work:

<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge>

--
Dan