Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:27:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Subject: Re: kernel support for keyboards Message-ID: <199604152127.XAA13739@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604152109.RAA22422@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Apr 15, 96 05:09:29 pm
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As Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > Do I need it? No, I don't need it at all. (I'm perfectly happy to just > edit my XF86Config file. :-P) :) > Looks to me like pcvt only has GIO_KEYMAP, whereas syscons has both > PIO_KEYMAP and GIO_KEYMAP. Doesn't look to me like kbdcontrol knows the > difference between syscons and pcvt. Looks to me like it's just going > print the error and exit if you try to set the keymap w/ pcvt. pcvt uses a totally different keymapping internally. I've implemented GIO_KEYMAP _only_ for the sake of the Xserver being able to fetch the map from the driver. kbdcontrol is not intended for pcvt at all. (Legacy code...) > It seems like it might be easy enough to have sysctl mimic what the > console driver does with the ioctl. I'll revisit it again and send a > new patch. Ok, and what i forgot last time: THANK YOU! -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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