HAL and INPUT

[Nicolas Trangez]

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 15:29 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Montag, 9. Juli 2007, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > Well, distribution installers all ask for your keyboard layout, so yes,
> > somewhat.
> 
> I meant detect this from the hardware and not from the installer. Changing the 
> fdi-file via the installer wouldn't work because if you install a HAL update 
> the settings get may overwritten. So it would be may better to set nothing in 
> the HAL/hal-info packages and set this on an other way (may via a special new 
> fdi-file under /etc/... , but XML sucks (IMO) and not each installer want to 
> add code to parse and change XML fdi-files).
Isn't it possible to have an FDI file somewhere under /etc override any
setting from hal-info (somewhere under /usr)? Like this the default in
hal-info can be US, your distro installer puts an override FDI file
under /etc with your local layout in it, and everybody's happy...

Or am I missing something?

Nicolas
> 
> Danny
> 
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