HAL vs. xorg.conf
Peter Hutterer
peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Sun Aug 3 15:44:37 PDT 2008
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 09:13:21PM +0200, Simon Thum wrote:
> my dev Xorg instance used to have a de keyboard layout, until I recently
> upgraded the systems HAL and its associated info (I`m using gentoo).
> Now, hotplug seems to rule out xorg.conf, see below.
>
> My question: Is that intentional? Is there a way to override without
> disabling hotplug?
Here's an explanation what happens and why:
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2008/07/input-configuration-in-nutshell.html
In the end it all comes down to adding the required bits to your fdi file.
Cheers,
Peter
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