Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl: Re: PMAG-A support?]

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

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > Ah, I haven't heard about this option yet. Well, the LK keymaps as
> > It was added in 1995 to support various m68k boxes :-)
> > 
> > > distributed with X seem to want RAW, I'll just try what happens with
> > > CustomKeycodes enabled.
> > 
> > So far everyone who tried MEDIUM_RAW mode on PC said it worked fine, and that
> > he wanted to make it the default mode, but apparently that never happened ;-(
> 
>  Well, X11 seems to have quite an extensive knowledge of various keyboards
> out there, so the advantage of using MEDIUM_RAW is epsilon.  OTOH, using
> the RAW mode gives the X-server a possibility to fully control the
> keyboard, beyond what is sufficient for the kernel for console operation. 
> And all the world is not a PC (nor a VAX, which the LK201, etc. keyboards
> might seem to imply ;-) ). 

I didn't want to imply the whole world is a PC, on the contrary ;-)

What I actually meant was `even on a PC', since CustomKeycodes was needed to
get non-PC keyboards working.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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