Xorg & HAL on GNU/kFreeBSD

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Hi,

There has been some problem reported on this mailing list to get Xorg
working on GNU/kFreeBSD, with the keyboard and mouse detection from HAL.

I have been able to solve part of this issue, let me explain how to do
it:
- First of all, you need a patched version of HAL. The patch can be
  found in bug#541189 will be included in the next upload.
- You need to add an FDI file to get the keyboard detected. This is 
  reported as bug#541140. In the meanwhile you can put
  10-x11-input-kbd.fdi (attached) in /etc/hal/fdi/policy.
- You have to drop the same kind of file for the mouse (see attached
  file 10-x11-input-mouse.fdi) to /etc/hal/fdi/policy. I haven't
  reported the bug to the BTS, as it don't fully work here. While the
  mouse is detected correctly, the cursor doesn't move.
- If you have a non-US keyboard, it should now be configured by doing
  'dpkg-reconfigure console-setup'. You also need an FDI file for that
  (see bug #535291), also attached as debian-x11-keymap.fdi.

Don't forget to remove those files from /etc/hal/fdi/policy when you
install a fixed package.

Please tell me if it works for you (especially the mouse).

Cheers,
Aurelien

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Aurelien Jarno	                        GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
aurelien@aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net

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

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

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
    <device>
	<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
	    <append key="info.callouts.add" type="strlist">debian-setup-keyboard</append>
	</match>
    </device>
</deviceinfo>