Comment 4 for bug 173833

You can test it by copying /usr/share/doc/hal/examples/10-x11-input.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/policy.

What's missing is a way to make it use the correct keymap automatically without editing any fdi file or such.

btw, this bug apparently is just due to misconfiguration with the new evdev. The problem is that there is no documentation for doing it the right way.