Re: XFree86 4 phase2v5 available for powerpc

[Kostas Gewrgiou <gewrgiou@imbc.gr>]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:

> > >    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?
> 
> Feel free to discuss this with Franz. I've had my fruitless discussion
> about keeping backwards compatibility already (about adbmouse and mouse
> button emulation), I won't repeat it. 
> 
> To be fair: implementing/backporting the new input layer code for APUS
> would be another solution to this problem.
> 

It's a bug not a feature ;P obviously the default should be the old behavior
if keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes isn't there, we do want backwards
compatibility in the Xserver and i don't think that anyone disagrees with
that.

Note also that the old behavior wasn't perfect, we have archs that were
using the at keycodes before the input layer so we just can't assume
adb if keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes isn't there :(

  Kostas