On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 07:22:32PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > * console-data when upgraded from previous versions will check the > > status of the dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes sysctl: > > - If the sysctl does not exist at all we have either a custom, > > misconfigured kernel, or a very old potato kernel. Explain > > this situation and what to do about it [2]. > > I believe that this sysctl only exists on systems with *both* H the new > input layer *and* CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES. This was true as of 2.2.17, but > I haven't tested empirically since then. no its not true of 2.2 kernels, it apparently is on recent 2.4 however. eb@socrates eb$ uname -a Linux socrates 2.2.19 #2 Sun May 6 00:02:40 AKDT 2001 ppc unknown eb@socrates eb$ grep ADBKEY /boot/config-2.2.19 # CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES is not set eb@socrates eb$ /sbin/sysctl -a 2> /dev/null | grep keycodes dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes = 1 > I this is correct, then we can't use the sysctl to distinguish old kernels > with no new input layer from new kernels with no adb keycodes. it won't work with 2.4 kernels yes. any other suggestions are welcome. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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