Re: [PATCH 5/8] IR: extend MCE keymap.

[Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:40:31AM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 21:37 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: 
> > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 10:47 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> > These keys are found on remote bundled with
> > >> > Toshiba Qosmio F50-10q.
> > >> >
> > >> > Found and tested by, Sami R <maesesami@gmail.com>
> > >> >
> > >> > Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
> > >> > ---
> > >> >  drivers/media/IR/keymaps/rc-rc6-mce.c |    3 +++
> > >> >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > Tommorow I will resend that patch with even more scancodes.
> > 
> > Saw the discussion on irc. Feel your pain big-time on the X server
> > limitation on keycodes. Its put a big damper on efforts to add native
> > support to mythtv. Peter Hutterer's libXi2 cookbook tutorials talk a
> > good game about how libXi2 supports 32-bit keycodes, but neglects to
> > mention that the X server still gobbles up anything above 248 or 255
> > or whatever it is, and remedying that is no small task. :(
> > 
> > I think for mythtv, we're going to end up having a daemon process with
> > elevated privs that reads directly from input devices to get around
> > this annoyance, until such time as the annoyance is gone.
> 
> Btw, indeed Xi2 still doesn't pass > 248 keycodes, just tested that with
> -git versions of X stack from about 2 months ago.
> However this can be fixed relatively easily.
> Maybe even I could do that.
> 
> The big problem is however about ability to map extended keycodes to
> actions, thing that should be provided by XKB2, which we will see
> probably when DNF is released on Phantom console...
> Also this will need lots of changes in toolkits.
> Thats the problem I don't have resources to fix.

Yeah, that's exactly what I got from Peter when I was asking him about
this issue on irc -- X server can be modified fairly easily, but there's
the arduous and undesirable task of making all the toolkits and whatnot
behave again, and nobody in their right mind really *wants* to dig into
xkb. :)

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Jarod Wilson
jarod@redhat.com