evdev-1.2.0 / hal-0.5.10 combo broken?

[pcpa at mandriva.com.br]

Quoting Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>:

> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 21:56:02 +0100, Remy Bosch wrote:
>
>> On gentoo forums there are some problems reported with the above
>> mentioned drivers. I for one, am dealing with a  non-working  "up".
>> The proposed method of dealing with it, is downgrading an earlier
>> version. Is there an other way to get around it *with* Hal?
>>
> Set xkbmodel to "evdev", and it should just work (at least it works fine
> here).  Your desktop environment might be messing with the xkb settings.

  Hi,

  Related to X Org input devices,

  I believe one the issues is the "forcing" on using evdev instead of
"kbd" or "mouse".

  Other issue is that there is no full integration with configuration
from xorg.conf, and to make things worse, hal configuration code doesn't
know about xorg.conf configuration code, and both do "its own thing"
when starting the X Server, i.e. frequently 2 instances of the same
module or 2 different modules handling the same device.

  Hal config code also only knows about what hal queries return, and
I believe there are only graphical "user friendly" configuration tools,
i.e. chicken and egg problem :-) If only hal config code is used, and
hal is misconfigured, things will not go very well...

  It is possible to configure hal just with command line, but
that isn't what I would call simple, i.e. using commands like lshal,
hal-get-property, hal-set-property, etc.

> Cheers,
> Julien

Paulo