[ubuntu-x] Xorg input-hotplug blueprint

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Colin Watson wrote:

> I really think the default should be generated on the fly by HAL if at
> all possible rather than by using a separately-written FDI file, and
> indeed this was my main comment upon reading the spec independently. Can
> you remind me what the specific problem with doing this was? If it just
> needs further debugging, we should bring in expert help if necessary.

I played with it, wrote a HAL script that would in theory do it, but it 
didn't work.. see:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2007/12/msg00234.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-February/010778.html

David replied to the post on debian-x, but didn't really answer my 
questions :)

http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2008/01/msg00537.html

I think the problem might be something really simple, but there was not 
enough time to dig deeper..


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