Re: X11R7.0

[Zephaniah E. H. <wa...@ae...>]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:56:47AM +0100, Ruben Faelens wrote:
> About your evdev problem:
> 
> I had the same problem. The large problem is the evdev keyboard driver 
> not outputting the same keycodes as the kbd driver. As such, some 
> keycodes which are assigned do not exist, whereas some are wrongly 
> assigned. For now, this workaround helps:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5559
> 
> The bug has been assigned to the input/evdev developers, but I haven't 
> heard from it ever since, so I guess it's low priority for them. Also, 
> they probably should clean op Xkb-support for evdev first anyway, the 
> current implementation is a hack IIRC.
> 
> Good luck using this workaround. It's strange, without Xkb everything 
> works correctly (with a qwerty layout).
> 
> Could you tell me if it worked or add a comment on the bug page? Thanks.

Could you take a look at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5696?

In theory the enhanced xkb support should work quite a bit better.
(It also needs additional testing.)

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