Re: Bug#531292: WARNING: Undefined kernel key code for
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:53:55PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Anton Zinoviev, le Fri 26 Jun 2009 22:34:32 +0300, a écrit :
> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:14:10AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > >
> > > So, these are due to missing matching between X keycodes and Linux
> > > scancodes. I'm wondering, however: shouldn't console-setup just use
> > > the evdev keycodes instead of the xfree86 keycodes, as the former map
> > > trivially to Linux scancodes?
> >
> > This is determined not by console-setup but by /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.
>
> Errr, but couldn't we not use xorg and directly evdev instead? Xorg
> actually usually uses evdev nowadays.
Do you mean Xorg uses /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev?
In any case it is easier to use rules/xorg instead rules/evdev because
with rules/evdev all keyboard models use evdev keycodes and the support
for atari, amiga, sun and old mac keyboards in console-setup becomes
difficult.
Anton Zinoviev
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