Re: xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for powerpc at X Strike Force repository
Derek Homeier wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:55:25PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:11:59PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >
> > > These packages are better than 4.0.3-x in the sense that they set the
> > > model to "macintosh" instead of "pc104", too bad Xkb is broken now...
> >
> > once we switch to linux keycodes that has to be changed back no?
> >
> No, we'll probaby have two keep different keymaps at least for the
> international keyboards to work properly (no, haven't created a mac-de
> yet, sorry!).
If such keymaps need to be created anyway, that can be done for Linux keycodes
rigth away, can't it?
> BTW, what is the great advantage of Xkb over just using the console
> keymaps anyway? Personally, I've disabled Xkb practically since i switched
> from Xpmac to XfreeFBDev, to have only one keymap to struggle with, and
> this has always been working well -- except for a few problems with
> the Mod keys which I solved with Xmodmap mainly due to laziness...
Xkb has nice features like disabling caps lock and probably plenty of other
stuff I don't know about...
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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