[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 1072] "keyboard" driver should just load "kbd" if USE_DEPRECATED_KEYBOARD_DRIVER is false

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------- Additional Comments From krh at bitplanet.net  2004-08-17 08:45 -------
(In reply to comment #9)
> You're right. Specifying "Mouse" doesn't work. So this seems to be a 
> misinformation that the config file is not case-sensitive. This needs to be 
> fixed in SuSE's X11 configuration program (SaX2).

I think only keywords (Section, EndSection, Option, Device etc) are case
insensitive.  Strings are not case insensitive, or I guess it depends on the
code that uses the strings.

> BTW, where can I find some documentation about the new "kbd" driver?

There's a man page, man kbd.  It supports basically the same options as the old
driver.  My understanding is that the new driver is mostly based on the old
driver, just modularized and broken up into os-specific parts to avoid the
#ifdef-hell.

> Most likely it makes sense to switch to the new driver anyway.

I would very much encourage that.  The plan is to get rid of the old driver for
the next release, so the more testing we get of the new driver before that
happens, the better.  I'm afraid we might see some bugs again that have been
fixed in the old driver, but we need to take the plunge and move away from the
old driver so the core code can be cleaned up.        
   
   
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