Re: How to set/change option for a specific input device with new Xorg+HAL
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:12, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> According to /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS.Debian.gz (and the links
> mentioned there) the input devices are now configured through HAL. And
> indeed, after a 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' my xorg.conf is (almost)
> empty, but the relevant setting I want to change is marked as "from
> config file".
>
> $ grep 'TrackPoint.*Emulate' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> (**) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
>
> Any ideea how/where to set 'EmulateWheelButton' to '2'? Apparently this
> can be done through some .fdi file(s), but I can't find any docs as to
> where the file should be or how it should look like.
Probably the file doesn't exist yet, the defaults work without
it. It theoretically can be called anything as long as it is in
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/
/usr/share/doc/hal/examples/10-x11-input.fdi is an example
file, with comments, and this might be more focused and relevant:
http://mvogt.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/xorg-evdev-and-emulatewheel/
I have personally not gotten the fdi file to have any effect, so I
use setxkbmap in my xinitrc. However, I have seen plenty of
blog posts where people got it working with no trouble.
For more info use google keywords like xorg, hal, evdev, fdi,
emulatewheel
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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