Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:27:51 +0200 From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg-server anyone? Message-ID: <200409101227.51303.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
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Marius Strobl wrote: > I guess you are refering to the former patch-xf86Events.c. It's part > of XFree 4.4 and Xorg 6.7 but I don't get why this was sufficient to > make Sun keyboards on FreeBSD working. Both XFree and Xorg have two > keyboard drivers, the old "built-in keyboard driver" and the new "kbd" > driver with MD modules. Both drivers basically assumes that every key- > board is a PC/AT one on FreeBSD. I think part of the explanation why > the XFree port works is that it uses the new driver while the Xorg port > uses the old one. Actually both "drivers" are splattered over a lot of > source and it's a bit hard to get which snippet belonges to what > driver. I also didn't find the knob to use either the old or the new > one, yet. I wrote an email to Eric hoping he has more insight and > could help clarify this but didn't get an answer, yet. > > Marius ABout the keyboard driver being used: both xfree 4.4 and xorg 6.7 use old 'keyboard' driver, xorg 6.8 will use the new 'kbd' driver. You can switch between them in "InputDevice" section for keyboard - for old driver: Driver "keyboard" for new one: Driver "kbd" Does switching between those two result in any difference?
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