evdev with sun type6 keyboard... also modmap gripes...

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Sun Nov 16 19:51:18 PST 2008


On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 05:52:53PM -0800, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> The keyboard mostly works, but it would probably be better if it were  
> treated as sun6... I just use the "old-fashioned" keyboard driver with:
> Option "XkbModel"    "sun6"
>
> I looked through the xf86-input-evdev source, but I didn't see an  
> obvious hash table to add this too... could someone tell me where I  
> should start digging to fix this?

don't. the point of evdev is that hash-tables like these are in the kernel,
and what X sees is standardised already.

You can use model sun6 with evdev as well (assuming xkeyboard-config 1.4).

Cheers,
  Peter



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