Keymap issue with Xorg & Dbus

cpwp · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject: Keymap issue with Xorg & Dbus

Hi All,

I'm having an issue with keymaps.

I have

salahx · Apprentice Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 273

The culprit is likely HAL. As of Xorg 7,3 if it xorg has HAL support built in, its gets the keyboard mapping from HAL instead and ignore the keyboard settings in xorg.conf. You'll need to add the appropriate fdfi file.

cpwp · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject:

Thanks for that - any pointers as to how that's done?

keenblade · Veteran Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Posts: 1007

edit the /etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi for your locale.
If the file is not there, then do

cpwp · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject:

That worked fine.

Many thanks.

Charlie