Subject: Re: Sun Type6 USB keyboard & X
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: current-users
Date: 10/24/2005 00:55:53
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Hello,

> A lot of this stuff gets swallowed by the ws driver before it ever
> gets high enough up the stack for anything to see it. I tried diving
> in a long time ago to find the "extra" keys on my microsoft natural
> keyboard. I'm afraid that although I verified the USB device was
> sending the codes I gave up after a while trying to understand the
> wscons stuff well enough to fix the issue.

These events will almost certainly end up in XFree but get swallowed
there. For some reason XFree translates all keyboard input to a common
set of keysyms which in turn are fed to XKB and friends. These
translation maps are incomplete and bug-ridden, I fixed plenty of them (
the ADB map was especially bad, support for Sun extra keys has been
added )

have fun
Michael

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