Re: keyboard problem with 2.6.6

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 04:30:43PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 03:46:14PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> 
> > > Thus, showkeys -s gave a garbage answer.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the report. It shows that resurrecting raw mode is even
> > > more desirable than I thought at first.
> > 
> > What for?
> 
> As you know, the keyboard/mouse situation in 2.6 is unfortunate.
> 
> I get a steady stream with letters from people complaining about
> the keyboard utilities under 2.6. How can I answer and tell them
> what the problem is? I need facts - raw data, so that I can
> trace the path of this raw data through the kernel.
> 
> That is my reason I want a raw mode. Often I have to ask them
> to boot 2.4 first to get reality, so that one afterwards is
> in a better position to understand the fake reality of 2.6.
> 
> But apart from such debugging use, there is also the more
> direct use: in order to assign a keycode to an unusual key
> one first asks for the scancode using scancode -s, and then
> assigns the keycode using setkeycodes. If scancode -s lies,
> this fails.

That's a good reason. I'll implement true rawmode support.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR