Re: Which laptop to buy?

From: tunla (lars.tunkrans_at_bredband.net)
Date: 02/12/05 

Date: 12 Feb 2005 06:40:25 -0800

Casper H.S. *** wrote:

> That's all a matter of Xorg.conf; in order to eb able to use both
> the USB mouse and the touchpad simultaneously and to be able to
> hotplug a USB mouse, you'd need to have entries in Xorg.conf as
> follows:
>

Thank you for that lesson in Xorg file construction ,
  The dual mouse entries work well !

>
> The brightness controls on the keyboard just work under Solaris;
> looks like a direct hardware implementation.

 Oops ! Yes they do I just had'nt tried it.

>
> To use a different keyboard, you really need to set it using
"eeprom";
> this makes the command line login work as well.
>

  I have Keyboard=Swedish in the eeprom and the CLI work correctly.
  So the laptop and solaris agree on the situation.
  The problem was that Xorg screws up if not given these keyboard
options.

    Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "se"

  The symptom was that a key produced its left-neighbour charatcter.
  I pressed the "W" key and got character "Q" a.s.o.

   //Lars