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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:17:21 +0200
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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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