Bug#524098: xserver-xorg: dependency on console-setup broke keyboard settings
Gábor Gombás wrote:
> Details: I have 2 USB keyboards with different layouts (one US, one
> Hungarian) and I also want different XKB options. I have specified the
> desired settings in a file under /etc/hal/fdi/policy/input-prefs.fdi
> (see below), and they have worked fine. However, after upgrading to
> 7.4+1, these settings are completely ignored, and the values configured
> for console-setup are used for _both_ keyboards, which is completely
> wrong.
>
I tried overriding console-setup settings with a custom fdi file but I
couldn't. Don't know if the bug is in hal or between keyboard and chair.
In the meantime, you can trying moving away
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/debian-x11-keymap.fdi
> So how on earth can I tell X.org to ignore console-setup? And why does
> console-setup override my explicit configuration for X.org? I really
> hate that this new "auto" configuration means I have to spend a _lot_ of
> time googling for every piece of information because _NOTHING_ is
> documented properly...
>
Welcome to the X.org world...
Brice
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