The other kbd bug from today's call

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Fri Aug 13 10:27:50 PDT 2004


This is the other bug we talked about today but didn't have in bugzilla yet.

	-alan-

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Bug 1072]  New: "keyboard" driver should just load "kbd" if 
USE_DEPRECATED_KEYBOARD_DRIVER is false
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:15:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: bugzilla-daemon at freedesktop.org
To: Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM

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            Summary: "keyboard" driver should just load "kbd" if
                     USE_DEPRECATED_KEYBOARD_DRIVER is false
            Product: xorg
            Version: CVS_head
           Platform: All
         OS/Version: All
             Status: NEW
           Severity: blocker
           Priority: P2
          Component: Input/Keyboard
         AssignedTo: xorg-bugzilla-noise at freedesktop.org
         ReportedBy: alan.coopersmith at sun.com
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              nThis:


Many people have existing xorg.conf & XF86config files that specify use of the
"keyboard" driver.  If they upgrade to the current release on a platform with
the deprecated driver disabled, the server refuses to start, instead printing
an error message:
*** ERROR the legacy keyboard driver "keyboard" is deprecated
*** and has not been compiled into this X server.  It will be removed
*** in the next release of the Xorg server.
*** Please consider using the the new "kbd" driver for "Keyboard0".

xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Init.c should be changed so that
the message is only a warning, not a fatal error, and the server should simply
load kbd instead for the given device.





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