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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:18:59
Message-Id: 200904071317.21216.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Tuesday 07 April 2009 13:02:28 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > [...]
4 > > but my real problem is that hal crap. In their fight to make x 'easier'
5 > > they make it harder. keyboard layout is incorrect? well, bad luck,
6 > > because hal's files are a bitch to deal with.
7 >
8 > I suppose the intention was for GUI tools to do the configuration, but
9 > as usual in Linux (:P) no one bothered because that would mean people
10 > won't learn.
11 >
12 > So be happy. You're learning how HAL syntax works. That's good for
13 > you. No? ;-)
14
15 <tongue_in_cheek>
16
17 Yes, it's wonderful. Let's face it, replacing something like
18
19 Driver "evdev"
20
21 with
22
23 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><deviceinfo
24 version="0.2"><device><match key="info.capabilities"
25 contains="input.keys"><merge key="input.x11_driver"
26 type="string">keyboard</merge><match
27 key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
28 string="Linux"><merge key="input.x11_driver"
29 type="string">evdev</merge></match></match></device></deviceinfo>
30
31
32 Is so OBVIOUSLY the correct way to go, and so OBVIOUSLY much easier. Right? I
33 mean, what kind of twit do you have to be to not understand the hal files?
34
35 </tongue_in_cheek>
36
37 --
38 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>