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bn ha scritto: |
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> Hi, |
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> Second thread of help with my Macbook upgrade of essentials which I |
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> don't upgrade since a long time. |
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> Now I have to prepare to jump from xorg-1.3 to xorg-1.6. I've seen |
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> already there are a lot of horror stories in the mailing list and a lot |
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> of weird instructions about hal, evdev etc. |
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> Before starting, I have some pre-emptive question: |
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> - Is using hal for xorg necessary? |
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> - If I want xorg to use the same old config files of before, is it |
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> enough to compile with -hal ? Is there a way to tell xorg "dynamically" |
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> to use hal or not, so that I can check without recompiling but just by |
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> restarting X? |
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> - I have the keymap (an Italian Macbook keyboard) customized in the , so |
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> that, for example, apple key works as Alt-Gr. To keep such |
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> customizations on (which, I admit, I don't remember well where they are, |
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> but maybe someone of you does! it was in the Gentoo Wiki but now I see |
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> the relevant part is no more), is it again good to let xorg use xorg.conf? |
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> - Anything else I should be aware of, like stuff to put into xorg.conf |
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> before trying to restart X? |
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Ok, I updated, and (miracolously enough) xorg 1.6 + hal/evdev mostly works! |
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Only thing I have to put back in shape is the keyboard mapping. I have |
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seen how to force hal policy to use the IT mapping, but I lost most |
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customizations I needed: |
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- key F11 mimicking the middle mouse button |
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- apple key mimicking Alt-Gr |
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and I don't find much information on how to do this with HAL. Any hint? |
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(Oddly enough, one of the past customizations I had, key F12=right mouse |
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button, still works.) |
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Thanks, |
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M. |
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