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

[Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@cc.hut.fi>]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Colin Watson wrote:

> 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?

mine looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->

<!-- This file is automatically generated, so do not edit it.
     Edit /etc/default/console-setup instead, and then run
     dpkg-reconfigure xorg-server  -->

<deviceinfo version="0.2">

  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
      <merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">xorg</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">fi</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">lv3:ralt_switch</merge>
    </match>
  </device>

</deviceinfo>


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