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ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

hal, xorg hotplugging and xmodmap.

After the update my X stopped working, I quickly found solution.
The answer says: `configure hal to use the kbd/mouse drivers anyways'  how can I do that?

But the real problem is an other, starting dbus and hal everything seemed working fine.
Unfortunately I lost my xmodmap settings. I rebind the `Menu' to `Multi_key' in order to type international characters with my us keyboard.
I am not sure what happens now, but the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is:

#!/bin/sh
userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/Xmodmap
if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi
if [ -f $userresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $userresources
fi
if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

and my
/etc/X11/xinit/Xmodmap is

keycode 117 = Multi_key

What does it mean? The xinit files are now ignored? Or they are called at the wrong moment? A part of disabling all this hotplugging stuff there is some solution?

ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Re: hal, xorg hotplugging and xmodmap.

Ok, found it. The autodetected keyboard has a different keycode of the Menu key than the xorg.conf configured... :S

Spudgun

Member

Registered: 2008-09-09

Posts: 12

Re: hal, xorg hotplugging and xmodmap.

Read the page you linked to, it tells you how to set the keymap.