Re: /etc/X11/Xmodmap re-revisited
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, BenH wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2000, Branden Robinson <branden@ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
> >Actually, I've decided to do the sensible (?) thing and identify the
> >keycodes by keyboard model rather than the machine architecture. One way
> >or another you can probably manage to plug a PC keyboard into just about
> >anything, so it doesn't make much sense to refer to it as an "i386"
> >keyboard.
> >
> >Comments? Suggestions?
>
> The last time I looked at the USB keyboard driver, it was broken enough
> to prevent you from doing that.
>
> basically, it will either convert the keycodes to PC keycodes if you are
> compiling for i386, or to ADB keycodes if CONFIG_MAC_KEYBOARD is defined,
> or will just not compile if neither of them is defined.
>
> I'll see with the maintainer if this can be changed to simply use PC
> keycodes all the time on all archs _except_ when we are running on a
> PowerMac (and this will be checked at runtime and not compile time).
No!!! Been there, done that (for Amiga keyboards). Keycode conversion is evil.
I can dig up this 1995-discussion on linux-m68k if you're interested.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- geert@linux-m68k.org
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