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Hello,

> The counter-argument that some have made is that XFree is a bodge job
> that relies on PS/2 scan codes.  I'm no X "expert", but it seems to me
> that XFree must already know how to deal with USB keyboards, so in the
> worst case it winds up performing an extra translation.

Eh, don't get me wrong - that wasn't meant as a counter ;)
XFree translates everything into some scancode set derived from PS/2,
not actually PS/2, so it can be extended ( and this way support extra
keys like Sun's without much hassle ). It has a bunch of tables for this
purpose ( which are duplicated and were full of errors for some reason )
so ADB, Sun and USB keyboards work and appear as PCish keyboards to XKB.
The extra translation step is cheap enough I think, it's only a 1:1
mapping after all.

have fun
Michael

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