Re: .Xmodmap and new input layer, upgrades and breakage

2000-12-12 Thread Michael Schmitz
> As for Bastien's point, "RTFM", I think that is appropriate for a point > upgrade, > e.g. slink to potato, but a minor upgrade to 2.2r2 should really not require > paging > through oodles of kernel docs in the console (because X won't start without > the > pointer). Maybe we need some kind of

Re: .Xmodmap and new input layer, upgrades and breakage

2000-12-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 03:42:03PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > I'm not in front of my Debian box. What is used to generate the /dev nodes > > ? A > > postinstall script ? of which package ? Is it in the base.tgz ? > > the nodes in /dev are in base2_2.tgz, but they a

Re: .Xmodmap and new input layer, upgrades and breakage

2000-12-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 03:42:03PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > I'm not in front of my Debian box. What is used to generate the /dev nodes ? > A > postinstall script ? of which package ? Is it in the base.tgz ? the nodes in /dev are in base2_2.tgz, but they are also generated/maintained by

Re: .Xmodmap and new input layer, upgrades and breakage

2000-12-11 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Have these keys been hardcoded? > > BenH explained this before, I think he said it was a hardware problem (the > Caps-Lock key not sending a keycode when it goes back up, or something like > that), that would also explain why you can't switch these 2 keys. Is there a > fix > for that ? Th

Re: .Xmodmap and new input layer, upgrades and breakage

2000-12-11 Thread Bastien Nocera
Quoting Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I've been annoyed for the longest time that Caps_Lock and Control_L > can't be switched on an ADB keyboard. (When I used to try, I'd get some > pretty strange behavior, with both toggling the light but not quite > doing caps lock right-

.Xmodmap and new input layer, upgrades and breakage

2000-12-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, I've been annoyed for the longest time that Caps_Lock and Control_L can't be switched on an ADB keyboard. (When I used to try, I'd get some pretty strange behavior, with both toggling the light but not quite doing caps lock right- I don't quite remember, but it was pretty odd. Heard somewh