Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 15:28:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Cc: j@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVORAK keyboard drivers Message-ID: <199604101328.PAA14632@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199604101249.IAA01879@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Apr 10, 96 08:49:45 am
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In reply to Kaleb S. KEITHLEY who wrote:
>
> > This used to work before the xkb code went in.
>
> The point being?
>
> > (I admit that the
> > *way* how it worked was quite painful, but the initial mapping was
> > there in place.)
>
> If you don't want the features of XKB, run the server with -xkb or add
> XkbDisable to your XF86Config. Really, how tough is it to edit your XF86Config
> file? Yeah, it'd be nice if you didn't have to do it two places, but it doesn't
> take a PhD to do it either, so kwicherbitchen and edit your XF86Config file
> to make XKB load the keymap you want.
You should add a nice little util to do this (thats one of the things
I like about Xinsides server :) )
>
> If you want XKB in XFree86 to automatically work better on FreeBSD then I
> need some better support at the OS level.
Sigh, the support is (was) there look in the old sources, it worked just
fine, I think you guys screwed up if you broke that support !
Besides FreeBSD is not the only one using this interface, SCO & SVR4
does it like this too...
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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