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

[David Nusinow]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:08:19AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> David Nusinow schrieb:
> > Ok, I missed that somehow. So it should probably be hal that generates this
> > and not the xserver?
> 
> The problem with hal generating the fdi file, would be that it could get
> out of sync, whenever you run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.
> We would also have to duplicate a lot of logic from xserver-xorgs
> postinst in hal. Generating the fdi file from within xserver-xorg seems
> to be more straightforward to me.
> 
> If you are going to remove the input device section (generation)
> completely from xserver-xorgs postinst and rely completely on hal for
> that, then I agree hal should be the one and only place where to
> configure the keyboard/input.
> Doing the configuration at two places (xserver-xorg->xorg.conf and hal->
> fdi) will really cause headaches imho.

Yeah, we'll remove it from the xserver postinst. The only thing I want is
to allow the server to respect currently existing xorg.confs. So long as
that happens, it's probably better if hal does create the fdi.

 - David Nusinow