Bug#307327: kernel-source-2.6.11: [powerpc] fn-key does not work on new powerbooks
Le vendredi 12 août 2005 à 15:03 +0100, Jochen Voss a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 07:09:55PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > [the fn key patch] seems fine enough to me, has is been submitted upstream?
>
> I don't know. In
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/07/msg00370.html
>
> Stelian Pop (CCed) asked whether he should push this into the mainstream
> kernel, but I do not know the final outcome of this. Stelian: what is
> the current state of this?
The current state is that the patch has been discussed on lkml and in
private with Vojtech Pavlik, the kernel input subsystem maintainter.
He didn't agree to the patch, considering that the "right control" key
assignment is a hack and the key should send the "function key" keycode
instead.
A patch implementing this behaviour is already in the -mm kernel and it
is reasonable to think that it will be in 2.6.14.
The Fn key can be easily assigned to any X modifier (including "right
control") using the standard xkb mappings.
The only (big) downside is that the FN keycode will not be understood by
the classic X keyboard driver (no events in xev for example), unless the
new (and not upstream yet) input based X keyboard driver is used.
I know Gentoo patched X in order to add this augmented driver, and that
X.org will include the driver in a future release. But until then, this
will require a patched X server.
Stelian.
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Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
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