Re: [Dri-devel] On Mice and X. Ignore me if you think me silly. I probably am.

[teunis <te...@co...>]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, teunis wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Daryll Strauss wrote:
> > 
> > [clip]
> > > There's no reason that you couldn't create a new input device that was
> > > driven entirely by the keyboard. I personally don't know how to do
> > > it. (Not my end of the hardware. :-)) If you do take up this project
> > > then I would encourage you to join XFree. We don't want to split the
> > > development effort and there are lots of good people to help you there
> > > that aren't on our list.
> > 
> > Ah.  Okay.  I haven't been all that knowledgable about what group was up
> > to what :)
> >
> 
>   Actually xkb can drive the pointer from the keyboard, shift-numlock
> enables it and then you move the mouse with the num keypad. 
> So XFree should have been ok without an input device defined (not that i ever
> tried it though :)

Well, to be honest, the XKB extension is currenty disabled.  Never thought
of looking there.  (wondered where that code had gotten...  Last I looked
at this capability was circa 1995-96 IIRC)

Anyways, is the XKB extension operational in .17 source?
(hope so)
And if not - why, and does it have anything to do with tdfx/DRI?

G'day, eh? :)
	- Teunis