[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#446851: hal: German keyboard setting broken with new HAL version

[Julien Cristau]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:27:31 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:

> severity 446851 critical
> severity 447666 critical
> severity 447676 critical
> merge 447841 446851 447666 447676
> thanks
> 
> This is not actually a bug but in the way xorg input hotplugging is
> currently configured and is simply triggered by the latest hal upgrade.
> Raise the severity to prevent this hal version from entering testing.
> 
Michael, would you consider adding the attached version of x11-input.fdi
to hal for now?  This doesn't change anything for keyboards, only
mice/touchpads, so wouldn't cause the same problems as the previous
version.  We can revisit the keyboard stuff after lenny.

Cheers,
Julien
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <!-- FIXME: Support tablets too. -->
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.mouse">
      <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">mouse</merge>
      <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
             string="Linux">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
      </match>
    </match>

    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
      <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
             string="Linux">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
      </match>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>