Bug#568458: xserver-xorg-input-evdev: still no documentation

[Paul Vojta <vojta@math.berkeley.edu>]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 07:43:25PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev
> > Version: 1:2.3.2-3
> > Followup-For: Bug #568458
> >
> >
> > This has been an issue for some time now.
> >
> > The evdev man page is quite misleading.
> >
> > It mentions only mouse options, no keyboard or other device options.
> >
> > It does not mention used at all but udev is the only reasonable way of
> > configuring these input devices with recent xorg.
> >
> > It is completely possible to install a default keyboard configuration
> > with udev which applies to every keyboard plugged into the system but I
> > cannot find any place where this is documented.
> >   
> 
> udev support is Debian-only so far, it will be upstream in Xserver 1.8.
> It probably explains some missing documentation :)

If it's any help:

Edit /etc/default/keyboard

Reboot, or (as root) run the command:

	udevadm trigger --action=add --subsystem-match=input

Restart the X server

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu