Am Di, den 01.06.2004 schrieb Zephaniah E. Hull um 16:20: > On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 03:44:36AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:55:58PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > > > CC'ing Zephaniah E. Hull, who seems to be the person who contributed the > > > patch in question. > > [...] > > > I hope I'm asking this question in the right place, since the evdev > > > support patch seems to be Debian specific. I was trying to get my > > > keyboard (Sun Type 6 USB) to work with the evdev driver, and I found a > > > whole lot of keys reporting scancode 7, even more than in "regular" > > > operation, without the evdev stuff. Then I read these lines in the > > > patch: > > [...] > > > ... which could explain that. Is there a specific reason why these > > > codes are mapped to KEY_UNKNOWN? I mean, if Linux recognizes them > > > (which I'm not sure about -- is there a way to verify that besides > > > hexdumping /dev/input/event*?), it would be cool to pass them on to the > > > user. > > > > I'm going to have to defer to Zeph on this one. > > > > Zeph, can you shed some light on this, please? > > Er, the answer is quite simple really. > > I could find nothing to map them /TO/ on the X side of things.
That's what I expected. :-( > This could simply be my missing something, but I really could find no > keycodes to map those to. Nor someplace to throw unknown codes on mass. > > Does anyone have some bright ideas on how to handle them? I'm certainly no expert on this, but my impression is that XF86 doesn't have a very clear concept on how the translation from raw scancodes to X11 scancodes should work. (And what the difference between the two should be -- IMHO the distinction is superfluous anyway. Shouldn't the XKB layer deal with this conversion?) So basically, our task would be to keep all keys which do report scancodes now AT-compatible and find a "working" mapping for the other ones? In the best of all worlds, this mapping should be compatible with the mapping that XF86 does for AT keyboards which aren't connected through evdev. I wonder if that is possible at all. -- Best Regards, | This signature is currently under construction. Sebastian | Please check back later!
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