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Archive for April, 2009
HADOPI – meeting with my local representative
Apr 20th
Following to the email sent regarding the French law known as “HADOPI” (I blogged about it a few weeks ago), I had a meeting this afternoon with my local representative.
This half an hour meeting allowed me to explain my fears regarding this “firewall” which could be set up on French citizens’ computers to enable them to prove their non-culpability (provided their computer runs a popular proprietary OS).
Xorg input hotplug
Apr 19th
I had written a few weeks ago about my new (almost) empty xorg.conf file and explained how I had to edit an HAL .fdi file to change my keyboard layout and define my compose key.
The Debian Xstrike Force have written a complete guide on the Debian wiki explaining this input hotplug system.
I have found that there is no need to edit .fdi files, just set the following options at the end of /etc/default/console-setup:
XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="fr" XKBVARIANT="latin9" XKBOPTIONS="compose:lwin"
Even better, they should now be automatically grabbed from your existing xorg.conf when upgrading!