Re: XFree86 4 phase2v5 available for powerpc
Kostas Gewrgiou wrote:
>
> 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 :(
Even more so because APUS doesn't use ADB keycodes either...
Michel
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
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