evdev-1.2.0 / hal-0.5.10 combo broken?

[Daniel Stone]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 04:40:12PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 04:55:07PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > Yes, the xorg.conf stuff should be handled, and the patch for that would
> > be dead simple to write.
> 
> Any hints on writing this? I started and stopped and am about to start
> again on this problem. From what I gather the first step is to load the ddx
> stuff first to ensure that the conf file gets parsed before executing the
> hal and dbus code. At that point, evdev should just work, but I'm sure I'm
> missing plenty of further steps.

Exactly.  Look for a keyboard section, just take its layout and use it
as the default (look in evdev_key.c's init function, or one of them, at
least, for XkbInitKeyboardDevice or so) if you find it.

Cheers,
Daniel
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