Adam C Powell IV wrote: > >>Should there be some kind of auto-detection of HID and > >>keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes in the .config and/or .postinst of the > >>xserver, to detect and advise or correct such a situation? > >> > >Not a bad idea, Branden? > > > Thanks, just looked, there's no bug, so I've just filed one.
Great, I'll probably follow up on it trying to point out a few technical problems. > >>Or are we all comfortable with just letting lots of users > >>get frustrated and confused, as with last December's change? > >> > >Of course not. > > > >The bottom line is: This won't be a problem for fresh woody installs as > >they will use Linux keycodes from the start. The tricky part is to make > >upgrades as smooth as possible, the big chunk of which has been done in > >console-data. > > > Really? How does this happen, I mean, with the same kernel-image, how > does a fresh install default to the Linux keycodes? The current kernel-image-2.2.19-pmac has ADB keycodes disabled, and Ethan fixed boot-floppies. > And, apart from an /etc/init.d script, is there a convenient way to make > this the boot-time default on my machine? As I have pointed out several times, a script can't be a solution because it can't do anything before the root filesystem is checked. Pass keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1 as an argument to the kernel, as console-data recommends. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
