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Date:      Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:23:29 +0100
From:      Matthias Muthmann <mmuthmann@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Michael G. Jung" <mikej@confluenttech.com>
Subject:   Re: Keyboard under X on Ultra10 [was Re: Problems with X..]
Message-ID:  <1111321409.12797.4.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <200503101534.00558.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
References:   <9D7F0DF3FB16D41184010050DA90E00001C874CE@neo.confluentasp.local> <200503090152.46323.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <1110393445.18502.9.camel@localhost> <200503101534.00558.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>

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> Hmm. And there are no files in xorg-server/files directory other then the ones 
> listed here:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server/files/
> and patch-bsd_KbdMap.c.2 ?
> 
> To recap (correct me if I get this wrong), Michael G. Jung has Ultra2 and 
> Aaron Dudek has Ultra60. Has anybody got keyboard working on Ultra10 under X?
> I don't know much about sparcs. Is there something specific about Ultra10 
> keyboard that could give us the clue about this.
> Have you had X.Org 6.7 installed? Did that work? And you said that using old 
> 'keyboard' driver works, right?
> I feel horrible that you had to go through several recompiles and reinstalls 
> and at the end keyboard seems to work for others, but we still have no 
> solution for Ultra10 other than the old driver workaround :( I'm afraid I 
> have no more ideas about this (not that previous ones were any good). The 
> best I can do is to add a knob to xorg-server Makefile (say 
> WITH_OLD_KEYBOARD) so it enables the workaround when used. Perhaps if you ask 
> on xorg@lists.freedesktop.org mailing list (see 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg) about this problem which 
> seems specific to Ultra10 keyboard or file a bug report at 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
> Again thank you for testing and recompiles and reinstalls. I wish I could be 
> of more help.
> 
> 
> Dejan
> 
Well, when I have time I'll try again, but it would be very interessting
which of the two patches corrected the problem for the others.
Btw: I just read the changelog for XFree-4.5 and found the following:
"Fix off-by-one problem for keys on FreeBSD/sparc64."
Perhaps this fix also works for xorg... 
-- 
Matthias Muthmann <mmuthmann@gmx.net>

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