Re: setting up mouse and keyboard for X11
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 06:09:20AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 01:56, lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 03:37:13PM -0700, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> >> On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:31:34 +0200
> >> lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > xinput -set-prop "PS2++ Logitech TrackMan" "Evdev Wheel Emulation
> >> > Button" 8
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > How do I make it so that it's set up automatically?
>
> Mouse stuff still goes in xorg.conf AFAIK
> You probably want:
> driver "evdev"
> and delete the "protocol" line altogether.
>
> You might try:
> device "mouse0"
> as well.
That might work, it´s worth a try, thanks.
> > Indeed, it should, but they changed it.
>
> for good reason: now keyboard config is universal between the console
> and X
The keyboard layout is different on the console because Xmodmap is
ineffective on the console ... And how´s that the other way round:
When you modify the keyboard layout on the console, will you have the
same layount for X11?
> > Perhaps it works when I disable hald? What愀 hald good for, anyway? It
> > only makes things unconfigurable, but does it have any advantages? Is
> > it some sort of virus that has been ported from windoze?
>
> Hal was fundamentally a good idea, but had some implementation
> problems that cause them to eventually replace it with direct libudev
> access and upower and udisks (formerly devicekit-*). Squeeze's X
> uses udev instead of HAL
Hm, I´m using testing, but hal was installed automatically because
packages depend on it. What´s it for when it´s not being used?
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