Subject: Re: Sun Type6 USB keyboard & X
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/24/2005 09:28:44
Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net> writes:
>> 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.

Nope. It never makes it that far. I've checked. Really. The problem is
far far lower down in the wscons stuff. Now, perhaps if the codes were
making it up to XFree, XFree would also swallow them, but they never
make it far enough for that to happen.

Perry