hey alan,
thanks for this info. it would have taken me forever to figure this
out.
i got things working again after creating the following file:
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/30user/10-x11-input.fdi
with these contents:
---8<---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<!--
Default X.org input configuration is defined in:
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/30user/10-x11-input.fdi
Settings here modify or override the default configuration.
See comment in the file above for more information.
To see the currently active hal X.org input configuration
run lshal or hal-device(1m) and search for "input.x11*" keys.
Hal and X must be restarted for changes here to take any effect
-->
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
<merge key="input.x11_options.XkbOptions"
type="string">ctrl:nocaps</merge>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
string="SunOS">
<match key="input.device" contains="usb">
<merge key="input.x11_options.XkbOptions"
type="string">ctrl:nocaps</merge>
</match>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
---8<---
ed
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:46:05AM +0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Xorg now relies by default entirely on HAL for input device configuration,
> and only uses xorg.conf entries for input devices if you disable that.
>
> This is what the man page refers to in the first paragraph under
> configuration details:
>
> Depending on the X server version in use, input device
> options may be set in either a xorg.conf file, or in the
> configuration files read by the Hardware Abstraction Layer
> (HAL) daemon, hald(1).
>
> /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi is the system-delivered
> HAL/X11 input device configurations - but if you edit it directly, I don't
> know if IPS will keep your changes or not on future image-updates, and am
> not in a position to test that right now. I think you could copy that to
> /etc/hal/fdi/policy/30user/ and strip it down to just overwriting/adding the
> values you want to modify from the default. The lshal command will show
> you the values hal is reporting for debugging.
>
> The other alternative is to revert to the pre-HAL static configurations,
> if you don't need multiple device support or support for starting with
> no devices and then hotplugging them in later.
>
> For that. see:
> http://who-t.blogspot.com/2008/07/input-configuration-in-nutshell.html
>
> (When reading that blog or other Xorg/HAL docs, remember that unlike linux,
> we still use kbd, since our kernel doesn't support the evdev device
> interfaces that Linux invented, but kbd on Solaris supports hotplugging and
> HAL configuration.)
>
> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
>
>
>
> Edward Pilatowicz wrote:
> > hey all,
> >
> > so i just image updated from b118 to b121. when running b118 i had the
> > caps lock key on my keyboard remapped to behave as a ctrl key. this
> > was done via the following entry in my xorg.conf file:
> >
> > ---8<---
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "CoreKeyboard"
> > Driver "kbd"
> > Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
> > EndSection
> > ---8<---
> >
> > but this no longer works with b121. the kbd.7 man page still makes a
> > reference to XkbOptions, and looking at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log it seems
> > that the kbd driver is still being loaded, but the configuration setting
> > above is no longer having any effect.
> >
> > anyone know what might have changed in b121 that would cause this change
> > in behavior?
> >
> > thanks
> > ed
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