Keyboard under X on Ultra10 [was Re: Problems with X..]
Matthias Muthmann
mmuthmann at gmx.net
Sun Mar 20 04:23:43 PST 2005
> Hmm. And there are no files in xorg-server/files directory other then the ones
> listed here:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server/files/
> and patch-bsd_KbdMap.c.2 ?
>
> To recap (correct me if I get this wrong), Michael G. Jung has Ultra2 and
> Aaron Dudek has Ultra60. Has anybody got keyboard working on Ultra10 under X?
> I don't know much about sparcs. Is there something specific about Ultra10
> keyboard that could give us the clue about this.
> Have you had X.Org 6.7 installed? Did that work? And you said that using old
> 'keyboard' driver works, right?
> I feel horrible that you had to go through several recompiles and reinstalls
> and at the end keyboard seems to work for others, but we still have no
> solution for Ultra10 other than the old driver workaround :( I'm afraid I
> have no more ideas about this (not that previous ones were any good). The
> best I can do is to add a knob to xorg-server Makefile (say
> WITH_OLD_KEYBOARD) so it enables the workaround when used. Perhaps if you ask
> on xorg at lists.freedesktop.org mailing list (see
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg) about this problem which
> seems specific to Ultra10 keyboard or file a bug report at
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
> Again thank you for testing and recompiles and reinstalls. I wish I could be
> of more help.
>
>
> Dejan
>
Well, when I have time I'll try again, but it would be very interessting
which of the two patches corrected the problem for the others.
Btw: I just read the changelog for XFree-4.5 and found the following:
"Fix off-by-one problem for keys on FreeBSD/sparc64."
Perhaps this fix also works for xorg...
--
Matthias Muthmann <mmuthmann at gmx.net>
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