Re: [patch commit request] kdrive xserver: support for key codes 128-255

[Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Stanislav Brabec wrote:

> Junqian Gordon Xu wrote:
>> On 01/30/2008 06:13 AM, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
>> >> Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>> >> Can you please elaborate what the application of this patch would
>> >> mean for OE (besides fixing support for one specific obscure
>> >> peripheral)?
>> 
>> I guess I probably would be yelled at for not raising this before
>> committing your patch.
>> 
>> Is this patch specific to Zaurus clamshells, akita/spitz/c7x0? In other
>> words, are there any other devices benifiting from the extended
>> keycode.
>>   I vaguely remember Dmitry asked about extended keycode for tosa, but
>> I'm not sure he's talking about the same thing.
> 
> No. It adds support for key codes 128-255 in general.
> 
> Let he test to assign these key codes in the kernel driver. He should
> see them non-mangled in X.

Thanks. I'll test. Should I use -keybd keyboard or -keybd evdev... ?

> 
> Note that is cannot provide codes above 255 - it is a major limitation
> of X11 protocol.

Hmmm. According to the <linux/input.h> there are a plenty of keys with 
keycodes 0x160 -- 0x1ff. They can't be handled by the X11?

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With best wishes
Dmitry