Squeeze: HAL .fdi policy rules not working in X after update

[The Only]

After a system update a couple of days back - which as far as I can remember included some xorg packages - neither of the policy files I have written for my keyboard, synaptics touchpad and mouse work.

Below are the files and the Xorg log file.

99-x11-keyboard.fdi

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
	<device>
		<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
			<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">kbd</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.CoreKeyboard" type="string">true</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.XkbRules" type="string">xorg</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.XkbModel" type="string">pc104</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.XkbLayout" type="string">gb,bg(phonetic)</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.XkbOptions" type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bskp,grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.AutoRepeat" type="string">400 80</merge>
		</match>
	</device>
</deviceinfo>

I cannot use any other layout except for "us" unless specified within any desktop environment. However, I like having global settings hence the reason why I added those rules. Setting a value of "evdev" for "input.x11_driver" also doesn't work.

99-x11-mouse.fdi

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
	<device>
		<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.mouse">
			<merge key="input.x11_options.CorePointer" type="string">True</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">True</merge>
		</match>
	</device>
</deviceinfo>

99-x11-touchpad.fdi

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
	<device>
		<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
			<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.CorePointer" type="string">true</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.SendCoreEvents" type="string">true</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">true</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.TopEdge" type="string">1620</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.RightEdge" type="string">8130</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.BottomEdge" type="string">4236</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.LeftEdge" type="string">1752</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">1</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.HorizEdgeScroll" type="string">1</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.CornerCoasting" type="string">true</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.SpecialScrollAreaRight" type="string">true</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.RBCornerButton" type="string">2</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.RTCornerButton" type="string">3</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">2</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">3</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>
		</match>
	</device>
</deviceinfo>

All of these rules used to work before the update.

I also noticed some lines of interest within Xorg's log file:

Lines 733-735:

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(EE) ioctl EVIOCGNAME failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for ""Logitech USB Optical Mouse""

Lines 768-770:

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(EE) ioctl EVIOCGNAME failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for ""SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad""

Lines 776-779:

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(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device ""ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device"" (type: KEYBOARD)
(**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_model" "pc104"
(**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"

The entire log can be found here.

I'd be grateful if anyone could help me resolve this issue.
Thanks in advance!

[milomak]

i believe the move away from hal has started. certainly in sid that is the case

[The Only]

I see. Oh well, I didn't like the HAL rules anyway.
I shall try migrating these back to xorg.conf.

Cheers!

Edit:
Right, I configured these in xorg.conf. Both good and bad news. The good news is that the touchpad and mouse settings are working fine. The bad news - no change in keyboard behaviour.

Xorg.log looks a bit better - not as many (EE) lines as there were before. However, the lines mentioning that only "us" layout has been selected are still there - several entries between lines 721 and 807.

Copies of my xorg.conf and Xorg.log can be found here and here respectively. Results are the same even with Driver set to "kbd".

[WEARENOTALONE]

Xorg Input Configuration in Debian Squeeze and Unstable is now done with the help of udev; *.fdi files and xorg.conf entries are ignored. To set your keyboard layout you have to edit /etc/default/keyboard. For more information about udev and xorg please read this guide from kubuntu. But there are still problems like written in this bug report.

Best Regards
WANA

[yorik]

In fact writing udev rules if you can write fdi rules is not very complicated. They go in /etc/udev/rules.d/ instead of /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ and they follow the same numbering system, lower numbers get loaded first. For example, I just did this one for my Wizardpen tablet:

/etc/hal/fdi/policy/99-x11-wizardpen.fdi

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<!-- This MUST match with the name of your tablet -->
<match key="info.product" contains="UC-LOGIC Tablet WP5540U">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">wizardpen</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.SendCoreEvents" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TopX" type="string">0</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TopY" type="string">2861</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.BottomX" type="string">30866</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.BottomY" type="string">32619</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.MaxX" type="string">30866</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.MaxY" type="string">32619</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

/etc/udev/rules.d/99-xorg-wizardpen.rules

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# rules for Wizardpen 5x4 tablet
ENV{ID_MODEL}=="Tablet_WP5540U", ENV{x11_driver}="wizardpen", ENV{x11_options.SendCoreEvents}="true", ENV{x11_options.TopX}="0",\ ENV{x11_options.TopY}="2861", ENV{x11_options.BottomX}="30866", ENV{x11_options.BottomY}="32619", ENV{x11_options.MaxX}="30866",\ ENV{x11_options.MaxY}="32619"

The only tricky part was that the name of the device is different, but I found it quickly on the net looking for "udev wizardpen"