Re: newer xfree86 4.0.1 patches

At 11:57 08.09.00, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote:

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Franz Sirl wrote:

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I can't speak about XF4, but with XF3 all of these work out-of-the-box if
you disable Xkb (using kernel keycodes). If you enable Xkb, it also

works,

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but then you need the special X keymaps (for those that are

available) (no

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surprise).

And I'd say `everything else works fine if you use _MEDIUMRAW_ instead of
RAW'.

Nope, you need to compile xf3/4 with ASSUME_CUSTOM_KEYCODES undefined _and_
use RAW keyboard mode, otherwise it won't work correctly for some keys and
XKB. Tested that on PC and PMac, cause I wanted to be sure that my xf4

patch

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is as short as possible.

  What is the problem with MEDIUMRAW in the input layer ? we still can't use
RAW for the old kernels so we will have to stick with MEDIUMRAW.
In your patch you use RAW only when the at keycodes are used so its ok.

Kostas, there's no problem with MEDIUMRAW and ADB keycodes, but we were
talking about CHRP/PReP, which use PS2 keyboards and must use RAW mode with
ASSUME_CUSTOM_KEYCODES undefined to work as expected with XKB. You should
know, you did extensive testing in this area :-).

PS> There is a discussion in xfree about redesigning the keyboard driver
but don't expect to see any changes in the near future.

Yeah, using the /dev/input/eventX devices for keyboard and mouse input
would greatly simplify the situation and prepare us for real
multihead/multiuser operation.

Franz.


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