[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#442316: Xorg hotplugging problems [WAS: Re: Bug#442316: xserver-xorg-input-evdev: evdev from experimental messes up my keyboard layout]

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:55:35PM -0400, ext David Nusinow wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:53:40PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > As I've said before, the X server isn't the only user of the field. :)
> > Ubuntu were trying to move to cxkb a year or so ago, and the only thing
> > that stopped them in the end was how huge the XKB codebase was, which
> > I'm fixing (very slowly) upstream.  So yeah, if having this in HAL lets
> > us finaly unify console and X keymaps ...
> 
> Ok, I missed that somehow. So it should probably be hal that generates this
> and not the xserver?

Yep.

> > Well, you could even have a postinst that scans xorg.conf and generates
> > the FDI, but yes, the X server should be responsible for checking this
> > and not breaking existing setups.
> 
> Yeah, I'm mainly concerned with not breaking existing setups. I feel like
> we've been doing that a lot lately. Luckly, lenny is a ways away so we have
> time to break things quite a bit before we get it right.

Sweet.  Well, I'll happily take patches.

Cheers,
Daniel
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