Re: loadkeys braindamage
On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 12:16:36PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 02:28:31AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > So - loadkeys from console-tools never touches a keycode that there is no
> > 'keycode' line for in the definition. Binary loadkeys from busybox DOES,
> > however, and does not preserve the fill information.
> >
> > For powermacs, this is a problem. Keycode 0 is never handled well by
> > console-tools (note dumpkeys does not show it) - but for us, it is 'a'.
> > Oh, well.
> >
> > Usually it is unset by console-tools (because of an apparent error in the
> > data files, I think), but our loadkeys trashes it.
> >
> > I've hacked around this in console-data. But it is just another reason our
> > separate loadkeys is a very dangerous (and brittle) idea.
>
> Then someone needs to apply the binary output patch to the main
> console-tools and supply a bug report to the maintainer. This is the only
> thing in out loadkeys that isn't supported in the mainline binaries, and
> it is the reason we have a seperate one.
That binary-output patch is what is broken in this case. I'll go after
doing just that when I have time to fix it to my satisfaction.
Dan
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