[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#524098: xserver-xorg: dependency on console-setup broke keyboard settings

[Gabor Gombas]

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:34:33AM +0300, Valery V. Vorotyntsev wrote:

> I've upgraded xserver-xorg (I run `testing'). It came with new dependencies
> (hal, console-setup) and made my keyboard hardly usable. I was lucky enough
> to find Gabor's bug report (thanks, Gabor!). I've commented out contents of
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/debian-x11-keymap.fdi and restarted hal
> and gdm; now my keyboard is working properly.

Editing the file is not that good since you have to repeat it after
every upgrade. Diverting the file (see dpkg-divert) is better, just
make sure the new name does not have a .fdi extension.

Gabor

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