Re: keyboard

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On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 05:17:14PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:25:23PM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote:
> > I guess that for multiple keyboards, the keyboard.c file from XFree86
> > will need changing,
> > anyone fancy making a patch to allow a ' Device "/dev/inputXXX" ' option
> > in XF86Config
> > for the keyboard section?
> 
> That would be very nice, yes. Noone has volunteered yet, afaik.
  I've started one.  Last I used it it worked 90% for my mouse.  I was
almost up to the point of creating the keyboard event maps when I stoped
working on it.
  It wouldn't be in the keyboard section, however. Not in XF4 at least. The
keyboard and mouse sections are depreciated and ideally shouldn't be used. 
But, as there is no suitible replacement for the old keyboard driver yet the
keyboard section is still needed.

> 
> > Or maybe X will start up using whatever keyboard was being used upon
> > start up?
> > Can someone explain briefly how that's going to work?
> > I will be looking at X docs today to try and understand a bit more about
> > drivers.
  Well, if the existing way (or something similar) that X gets it's
keycodes from the console survives then yes, it will use the same keyboard
config as that VC, unless overridden.

  - Nick Lopez
    kim...@at...
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