Re: kbd.diff (X loses keyboard on trivial operation)

2002-11-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:55:29PM -0500, David Walter wrote: > X loses keyboard on trivial operation > > ls -l /dev/kbd > > The kbd translator formerly believed it needed to start a new thread > for every open call. It also _closed_ the device after every > corresponding close_hook cal

Re: kbd.diff (X loses keyboard on trivial operation)

2002-11-05 Thread Roland McGrath
> I don't actually think the console server has anything to do with it. The > burden is all entirely on the vga+pckbd client, because it is the client and > X which share the hardware. The console client could provide an osmouse and > a raw kbd repeater device, the former is similar to the repeat

Re: kbd.diff (X loses keyboard on trivial operation)

2002-11-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:06:45PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > streamio is a generic translator with no device-specific knowledge. In the > absence of a clean infrastructure of some kind, I think we would rather > leave it that way than have any special hacks for kbd/mouse in it. I agree. It

Re: kbd.diff (X loses keyboard on trivial operation)

2002-11-04 Thread Roland McGrath
streamio is a generic translator with no device-specific knowledge. In the absence of a clean infrastructure of some kind, I think we would rather leave it that way than have any special hacks for kbd/mouse in it. I think that the cases of kbd and mouse should be addressed through work on the new

Re: kbd.diff (X loses keyboard on trivial operation)

2002-11-04 Thread David Walter
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:09:07PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: >> I thought we had /hurd/streamio precisely to deal with these devices. > > streamio doesn't deal with setting kbd to raw mode etc. > Should I futz with this to try to make both kbd

Re: kbd.diff (X loses keyboard on trivial operation)

2002-11-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:09:07PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > I thought we had /hurd/streamio precisely to deal with these devices. streamio doesn't deal with setting kbd to raw mode etc. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkma

Re: kbd.diff (X loses keyboard on trivial operation)

2002-11-03 Thread Roland McGrath
I thought we had /hurd/streamio precisely to deal with these devices. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: kbd.diff (X loses keyboard on trivial operation)

2002-11-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:55:29PM -0500, David Walter wrote: > X loses keyboard on trivial operation > > ls -l /dev/kbd > > The kbd translator formerly believed it needed to start a new thread > for every open call. It also _closed_ the device after every > corresponding close_hook cal

kbd.diff (X loses keyboard on trivial operation)

2002-10-28 Thread David Walter
X loses keyboard on trivial operation ls -l /dev/kbd The kbd translator formerly believed it needed to start a new thread for every open call. It also _closed_ the device after every corresponding close_hook call. 2002-10-28 David Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * kbd.c (trivfs_