On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:53:55PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Anton Zinoviev, le Fri 26 Jun 2009 22:34:32 +0300, a écrit : > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:14:10AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > > > So, these are due to missing matching between X keycodes and Linux > > > scancodes. I'm wondering, however: shouldn't console-setup just use > > > the evdev keycodes instead of the xfree86 keycodes, as the former map > > > trivially to Linux scancodes? > > > > This is determined not by console-setup but by > > /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg. > > Errr, but couldn't we not use xorg and directly evdev instead? Xorg > actually usually uses evdev nowadays.
Do you mean Xorg uses /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev? In any case it is easier to use rules/xorg instead rules/evdev because with rules/evdev all keyboard models use evdev keycodes and the support for atari, amiga, sun and old mac keyboards in console-setup becomes difficult. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
