Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody
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.)
* 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.
Keeping these in mind, I suggest that you go ahead with this change.
(And maybe figure out what's wrong with xkb?)
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/
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