Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze?

[Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 03:47, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:32:17 +0200, Paul Chany wrote:
>
>> Phil Requirements writes:
>
>>> Yes, you need to create a simple xorg.conf, because they aren't used by
>>> default. I had to create xorg.conf on my system to specify some
>>> keyboard options. It works nicely.
>>
>> For me the command X -configure doesn't works, because the system hangs
>> forever.
>>
>> What do you command use for xorg.conf to get it? Or, maybe it is there
>> another way (udev rules maybe) to setup xkeyboard layouts?
>
> This is what I am using in Lenny in my "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" file (the
> file is bigger, this is just the section for setting the keyboard). It
> should be still valid:
>
> ***
> Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
>        Driver          "kbd"
>        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
>        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
>        Option          "XkbLayout"     "es"
> EndSection
> ***

That doesn't even work anymore, does it? At least for a while when the
changeover first happened, I had that stuff in xorg.conf, but it had no effect
until I put it in /etc/default/console-setup (later /etc/default/keyboard)


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers