Strange issue with hal and Xorg

[Justin Mattock]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Matt Hayes<dominian at slackadelic.com> wrote:
> Justin Mattock wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Matt Hayes<dominian at slackadelic.com> wrote:
>>> walt wrote:
>>>> Matt Hayes wrote:
>>>>> Dan Nicholson wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Matt Hayes<dominian at slackadelic.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>> Hrm.. so where the heck is the "32" buttons coming from?  That's very
>>>>>>> odd and causes mapping of buttons to be a pita.
>>>>>> The evdev driver. Perhaps you were using the mouse driver in xorg.conf?
>>>>>>
>>>>> That is possible.  I will have to look at changing the mouse driver in a
>>>>> hal policy or Xorg.conf and see what that reveals.
>>>> I recently switched to using evdev and when I removed the InputDevice sections
>>>> from xorg.conf I had to add an fdi file to /etc/hal/fdi/policy (which I cleverly
>>>> named 10-x11-logitech.fdi) containing this:
>>>>
>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>>>> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
>>>>    <device>
>>>>      <match key="info.product" contains="ImExPS/2">
>>>>        <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
>>>>        <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">8</merge>
>>>>      </match>
>>>>    </device>
>>>> </deviceinfo>
>>>>
>>>> I constructed that file by looking at mouse-oriented parts of the output of
>>>> 'lshal' and just stuck the options in where it looked reasonable.
>>>>
>>>> It worked, and I'm still amazed.
>>> Well, I will give that a shot.  I need to learn how this hal stuff works
>>> anyway :)
>>>
>>> -Matt
>>>
>>
>> Don't want to confuse you, but hal
>> is being fazed out.
>> udev-142 is now responsible for handling
>> volumeid etc...
>
> Yeah.. now I'm confused....
>
> -Matt
>
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you shouldn't, it just means one less
daemon to be running in the background.

-- 
Justin P. Mattock