Subject: Re: akbd now supports raw mode To: None <> From:
Aymeric Vincent <> List: current-users Date: 08/14/2002 16:01:16
Matthias Drochner <> writes:  > said: > > - akbd now supports
raw mode (from OpenBSD) - the X server can now use > > keyboards
in raw mode in the wscons case > >   (from XFree86) > Excuse my
stupid question: Why is this an advantage? > I've always
considered RAWKBD an evil hack, just to get X working > until a
wskbd aware input driver is implemented.  I don't think this is
a stupid question.  I did add the support because Matthieu Herrb
told me the XFree86 policy is to try to have all low-level
drivers generate AT keycodes. I have no opinion on this policy,
and the code I added is not very intrusive. If it happens to be
completely useless in the long term, we can always stop using
it.  Note that if you continue to use the "wskbd" protocol, you
will not notice any change.  So, this is not an advantage in
itself; but it gets us closer to what Linux and OpenBSD do, and
so we can expect to be