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/
