In a nutshell, HAL allows to set the exact same properties as
First, make sure you've built xorg-server with
Then, we can configure HAL to correctly report the keyboard's layout. HAL ships
with device rules that are kept in
Sample configuration FDI files are available
For example, if you just want a basic configuration for a non-US keyboard
layout, copy the content of
Don't forget to read
By default, HAL will tell the X server to use the
You can therefore put all your input device configuration into HAL even if you
use other input drivers such as
More information on how to configure those drivers can be found here:
If you don't want to use HAL, you can either build
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
Both options will allow the X server to use the legacy
The "Device" section in your xorg.conf should mostly work unchanged.
However, if you have any issues, here's a few steps you can try:
Xorg drivers are now much better at actually detecting what kind of hardware you
have and (except for a
The old font handling was shaken quite a bit in our version of 1.5.3. The
As for legacy fonts themselves, they are now nearly useless as we provide a built-in "fixed" font which all legacy applications and toolkits should be able to use. Beware though that this font is extremely ugly.
Xdmx is broken. Don't use it unless you know what you're doing.