Re: X server on NetBSD/shark 4.0: protocol wskbd, legacy driver

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Apr 22, 2008, at 15:44, Sergey Svishchev wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:06:44PM -0400, Michael Lorenz wrote:
>
> > > > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/macallan/shark/bsd_KeyMap.diff
> > > > is a patch that should make the kbd driver work properly with  
> > > > PS/ 2  keyboards
> > >
> > > The code path you're patching is never taken -- KbdOn() always sets
> > > isConsole to FALSE in WSCONS mode; thus, raw mode will never be  
> > > set  and
> > > thus ATScancode() will be called anyway.
> > >
> > > See my comments to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1824
> >
> > The whole point is /not/ to use the legacy driver.
>
> That's exactly what I'm talking about.  Did you read the bugzilla?

Did you notice that the patch above is for NetBSD's own XFree86 and  
not Xorg?
It doesn't use raw mode at all, instead we read (struct wsevent)s  
from /dev/wskbd which sends one event per key event even for keys  
which would send multi-byte scancodes.

have fun
Michael
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