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Re: Using console-setup's keyboard setup for HAL and xorg input-hotplug



On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:46:07PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Colin and I had a discussion yesterday regarding the idea of reusing the
> console-setup keyboard settings with the xorg keyboard input-hotplug
> stuff in HAL.  The idea is that this script would be run from
> xorg-server.postinst.
> 
>   http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/InputHotplug/console2fdi.sh
> 
> 
> Sample output with a US keyboard with all defaults:
> 
> # http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/InputHotplug/us-keyboard.fdi
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
> 
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
> 
>   <device>
>     <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
>       <merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">xorg</merge>
>     </match>
>   </device>
> 
> </deviceinfo>

What do less-trivial cases look like in the FDI file?

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]


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