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

[Julien Cristau]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 15:54:05 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:47:06PM +0200, ext Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 20:02:31 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > You were right, Julien. It was because of hal (specifically the file
> > > /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi) that the evdev
> > > driver was enabled.
> >
> > BTW, should we change the fdi to load synaptics instead of evdev when it
> > detects a touchpad?  It seems most people are using that.
> 
> Yep, seems sensible to me.

OK.  Michael, the following patch seems to work for me:

--- 10-x11-input.fdi	2007-10-24 15:07:22.000000000 +0200
+++ 10-x11-input.fdi.new	2007-10-24 15:07:58.000000000 +0200
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
       <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
              string="Linux">
         <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
+        <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
+          <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
+        </match>
       </match>
     </match>
 

> 
> > I'm using evdev right now on my laptop, but I need to run xinput to set
> > the device to relative mode every time I start X (and I had to modify
> > xinput to let me do that, because it doesn't think my touchpad is an
> > extended device).
> 
> Ah, yes.  I assume it was just checking for XExtensionDevice, instead of
> Device/Keyboard/Pointer?
> 
Right.

Cheers,
Julien
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