On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:18:57PM -0400, Adam Goode wrote: > Yes, I think that this is a great idea. I've been using i386 keycodes > for a few months now, and it's nice to have ctrl-alt-del work properly. > > The only problems I see with this: > > * On Apple keyboards (USB or ADB), this swaps the "natural" position > of alt (option) and meta (Apple). I have no problem with this, as > I use a PC USB keyboard, and before the change, the Windows key and > alt key were improperly switched. (Apple keyboard + i386 keycodes > or PC keyboard + ADB keycodes = swapped alt/meta.) this is a non-issue IMO, if the user does not like the swap its very easy to edit the keymap to swap them back. all of two line change. i did this myself because that annoyed me as well. (apple puts alt in the wrong place hehe). it really isn't any different then sun people fixing thier x86 keyboard to put caps lock `where it truly belongs, where the control key is'. or vise versa. > * XFree86 4.0.3 currently cannot work completely correctly on PPC with > i386 keycodes, the arrow keys and a few other keys are mapped > completely incorrectly. The fix for this is to set XkbModel to > "powerpcps2" instead of "pc104". This took a long time to find, > until I saw in some xkb file that this was necessary because of > alleged "kernel bugs". (??) > Of course, pc104 doesn't work with ADB keycodes either. interesting.. running showkey on both my x86 and powerpc the arrow keys are producing the exact same keycodes. this is 2.2.19. i don't see why X would have a problem.. are you sure this is still the case? (i don't run X on powerpc) > Keeping these in mind, I suggest that you go ahead with this change. > (And maybe figure out what's wrong with xkb?) theres one vote in favor > > Adam > > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 03:04:27PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am wondering if there is any reason we should not switch woody to > > use linux keycodes by default and finally abandon the adb keycodes? > > > > AFAICT all that needs to be changed is dbootstrap to use i386 keymaps > > on macs, the kernel-images to turn off CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES, and > > console-* to choose i386 maps on macs instead of mac keymaps. the > > default X11 configuration would need to be changed probably as well. > > > > comments? i think its much better to do this in woody before its > > stable instead of woody r2 like we did with the input layer. ;-) > > > > -- > > Ethan Benson > > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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