Cleaned out /usr/local when reinstalling ports, now keyboard in X is not localized

Jerry freebsd.user at seibercom.net
Tue Aug 31 11:03:22 UTC 2010


On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:38:57 +0200
Bernt Hansson <bernt at bah.homeip.net> articulated:

> 2010-08-31 10:29, Leslie Jensen skrev:
> >
> >
> > On 2010-08-30 21:02, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> >> Put this in your .xinitrc
> >> setxkbmap se
> >>
> >>
> > Thanks for the suggestion!
> >
> > I wonder, is this metod the correct way.
> 
> I think so, as long X is concerned.
> 
>  > According to the handbook one
> > should use the
> >
> > /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi file.
> 
> There are no *.fdi files on this machine, and I don't
> feel like fiddling with hal.

No one in their right mind likes messing with hal. 

HAL is now (at least on other OSs) deprecated, since it has become a
large monolithic unmaintainable mess, and also duplicates a lot of
functionality which are nowadays provided by udev and the kernel itself.

Hopefully, FreeBSD will soon free itself from its clutches.

-- 
Jerry ✌
FreeBSD.user at seibercom.net

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