Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 07 April 2009 13:02:28 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > [...]
> > but my real problem is that hal crap. In their fight to make x 'easier'
> > they make it harder. keyboard layout is incorrect? well, bad luck,
> > because hal's files are a bitch to deal with.
>
> I suppose the intention was for GUI tools to do the configuration, but
> as usual in Linux (:P) no one bothered because that would mean people
> won't learn.
>
> So be happy.  You're learning how HAL syntax works.  That's good for
> you.  No?  ;-)

<tongue_in_cheek>

Yes, it's wonderful. Let's face it, replacing something like

  Driver         "evdev"

with

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><deviceinfo 
version="0.2"><device><match key="info.capabilities" 
contains="input.keys"><merge key="input.x11_driver" 
type="string">keyboard</merge><match 
key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" 
string="Linux"><merge key="input.x11_driver" 
type="string">evdev</merge></match></match></device></deviceinfo>   


Is so OBVIOUSLY the correct way to go, and so OBVIOUSLY much easier. Right? I 
mean, what kind of twit do you have to be to not understand the hal files?

</tongue_in_cheek>

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