Re: Latest analog joystick code

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 02:16:47PM -0400, James Simmons wrote:

> > Yes, I know about this and will be looking for the cause. Somehow the
> > shift state isn't carried across different VT's. It might be a bug in my
> > changes to char/keyboard.c, but I doubt that - I kept them minimal.
> 
> It's not only when I VT switch away. If I'm on VT 1 and keep pressing 
> Alt-F1 it also prints out a A. 

Thanks for the info. But it's even weirder than just that. Try running
a 'cat' on the VT - the problem disappears. I'll try to look into it.

> > Anyway, I'd like to rewrite (or better someone else to rewrite :)
> > keyboard.c - it's big, and complex, and doesn't have very clean
> > interface to the rest of the system.
> 
> Better than what was before. Its a matter of creating a better raw
> keyboard to console handling. Especially if we are going to support per VT 
> keymaps. 

Oh, yes. Per-VT keymaps will consume quite a lot of memory, btw ...

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs