Re: newer xfree86 4.0.1 patches

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> Franz Sirl wrote:
> > I'm not quite sure about the following:
> > 
> > - does Apus have it's own keycodes?
> 
> Yes, I think so. At least we need our own keymaps.
> 
> > If not, do you currently use ADB or AT keycodes?
> > - what's the keycode situation in XF3/4 for Apus?
> 
> AFAIK it isn't very clean with either, the best bet is still to disable Xkb.

And Franz also wrote:
| 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 :-).

APUS uses Amiga keyboards. There are lots of other machines who use their own
keymaps as well. If I only consider Linux/m68k, we have Atari, Sun-3, Apollo,
HP9000/[34]00, ...

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, but
then you need the special X keymaps (for those that are available) (no
surprise).

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

> > If you want to keep the current state of affairs I can see in the
> > linuxppc_2_3 tree, there's not much point in using machid.c, AFAICS. On the
> > other hand, if you plan to integrate your input drivers into 2.4, it makes
> > perfect sense.
> 
> I think it would be nice, but to be honest I don't fully understand what would
> be involved.

I hope this is _not_ about translating whatever-keyboard-type-keycodes to
PC-style keycodes? We (ehrm, I) already opened that can of worms somewhere in
1995, and closed it ASAP.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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