[SOLVED]Keyboard Tweak Problems...

[Holysword]

Hi there

'till today I used the deprecated way to set my keyboard layout, that is using xorg.conf. I used xkb driver instead evdev for somehow using evdev there makes my keyboard conflict with my mouse - kinda weird... Then I came up with the insane idea of using HAL now, as any normal person, and then I remembered why I chose to use xorg.conf instead. HAL doesn't listen to me. It doesn't matter what layout I set in /etc/hal/fdi/policy, HAL ignores it. So, if I wish to make my keyboard work, I must use setxkbmaps br_spec everytime I turn my computer on.

Another little thing that annoys me is that I try to use kbdrate to set delay to 150 and rate to 50. It doesn't work. Even when I set that in xorg.conf it just ignores it in X, though it works in ttys. If I want to make it works in X sessions I MUST open KDE4 systemsettings and change the delay and rate there - although they are already set to 150 and 50, I must change it to something else and then back again. Doing that EVERYTIME I turn my computer on is REALLY annoying.

So... any idea on how to solve these problems?

EDIT#1: Everything is solved now. X is using libudev.
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[VoidMage]

So, till xorg-server starts using libudev...

Check the values in hal daemon first - I suspect, that either
your fdi file is invalid or you're setting incorrect values.

After checking values in hald, post your fdi file.

[Holysword]

[VoidMage]

Well, there's a whole sticky about it.

Anyway, as variant is empty, simply don't set it,
instead of putting an empty tag.

And I do hope, that by "files I altered" you've meant:
"files, that I've copied somewhere under /etc/hal/fdi and modified them".
Looking at your attempts, the only thing that needs a change from default is the layout.

[Holysword]

Well, as you said, I copied and altered them. So the empty tag was already there. But I tried removing it too, nothing changed.
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