Re: newer xfree86 4.0.1 patches

At 11:53 07.09.00, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Olaf Hering wrote:

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There is also a keycode file for ps/2 based machines like PReP and CHRP,
called "powerpcps2". It is a workaround, the arrow keys and the page
up/down block are dead as example. I guess it is a kernel bug.

So prefixed scancodes don't work? Sounds familiar. I guess this has something
to do with the X server putting the keyboard in RAW mode (send raw scancodes,
including prefixes) instead of MEDIUMRAW mode (send keycodes, 1 code for each
key pres/release) or vice versa.

My xf4 work I did for the linux keycodes support fixes that. It's a
configurable option now (well, in 4.0.2 I hope). XkbModel "macintosh_old"
or XkbKeycodes "macintosh" for ADB keycodes/MEDIUMRAW mode, everything else
is Linux keycodes/RAW mode, or, if it can open the sysctl
/proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes, it tries to
autodetect. This will make PReP and CHRP users with PS2 keyboards happy I
hope :-).

On my TODO list, I still have to make chrp_setup.c and prep_setup.c use
machid_init_hw() and friends in machid.c.

Franz.


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