Re: XFree86 4 phase2v5 available for powerpc

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 04:49:02PM +0300, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Robert Ramiega wrote:
> 
> >  Than i made just one thing: changed /etc/X11/Xserver to point to XFree86
> > from the tarball and all started to work again.
> >  While using Xfree86 from debs i noticed this line in logfile:
> > 
> > (II) Defaulting to XFree86/Linux keycode handling.  
> > 
> >  Could this cause problems ? If so how can I (help) fix that ?
> > 
> 
>    Yeap thats the problem, looking at Franz's patch it seems that if
> keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes doesn't exist, the server assumes AT keycodes.
> I am not sure how to handle APUS as well, even the pmac test through xkb
> will only work if xkb is enabled (not always the case), i think it should
> be better to handle all the cases through the config file although it will
> make it harder for the users :(

Erm... this doesn't make sense to me.  On powerpc, if the file does not
exist, shouldn't we maintain the old behavior?

Dan

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