Renat Lumpau

For a while now, I've been frustrated with my keyboard layout situation. Ideally, I'd like to be able to switch between three: US dvorak, US QWERTY, and Russian. For some reason, X refuses to switch between layouts if I specify all three in xorg.conf. Since I use fluxbox, kxkb isn't an option (it messes up my key bindings).

Well, yesterday I finally had enough and wrote a quick bash script that switches layouts using setxkbmap and loops through my three layouts. It even notifies me of the current layout via xosd through pyosd. Life is good.

Turns out that the SATA-on-wakeup issue is still present in 2.6.17, and the patches don't apply cleanly anymore. For now, I've worked around it by disabling AHCI in BIOS. Apparently, FC5 has the fix, but I'm too lazy to track down the right patches. If anyone knows how to fix it properly, please let me know.

2.6.17 includes an updated version of the hdaps driver that supports Lenovo ThinkPads. A big thank-you to Uberlord who added hdapsd to the tree. The accelerometer works now, and hdaps-gl shows a floating laptop!