[arch-dev-public] [arch-commits] CVS update of extra/x11/xorg-server (PKGBUILD xorg-server.install)

[Jason Chu]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:19:26AM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2008 20:50:56 schrieb Alexander Baldeck:
> > +  echo ":: ATTENTION!"
> > +  echo ":: Since xorg-server version 1.4.0.90-7 hal support has"
> > +  echo ":: been enabled. By default keyboard layouts and variants"
> > +  echo ":: will now be overridden by hal. Please modfiy"
> > +  echo "::"
> > +  echo "::     /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-xkeyboard.fdi"
> 
> Do you have some additional information why this change was made? This sound 
> quite confusing to me. Is there no way to keep xorg.conf controlling which 
> keyboard layout is set?

I was running with this version, because it's still in the repo.  I use the
dvorak keyboard.  And my Super key would get stuck every so often.

I tried changing the keymap with setxkbmap and also in the hal config but
it always froze.  Only after a downgrade did it go away.

Jason
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