newer xfree86 4.0.1 patches

Michel Dänzer daenzerm at student.ethz.ch
Sat Sep 9 03:16:27 EST 2000


Franz Sirl wrote:

> > > > > - what's the keycode situation in XF3/4 for Apus?
> > > >
> > > > AFAIK it isn't very clean with either, the best bet is still to
> > > > disable Xkb.
> > >
> > > On PPC we can switch the keycodes between ADB and Linux with a sysctl.
> > > Linux keycodes are ~95% compatible with AT keycodes, so XKB will work.
> >
> >That would be great IMHO.
>
> And easy to do. See below.

Thanks for the detailed description. Unfortunately, I'm currently very busy
with exams, work, DRI, APUS, ..., but if I can get some time I'll look into
it. Or better, I encourage the other APUS developers to do so.

BTW you mentioned that somebody apparently already worked on the Amiga part of
the linuxconsole code - do you know who did it?


Michel


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