Keyboard under X on Ultra10 [was Re: Problems with X..]

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Sunday 20 of March 2005 13:23, Matthias Muthmann wrote:
> > 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.

Hopefully the one that I've commited with 6.8.2 upgrade, but I'm not so sure 
now when I saw the post from Michael Jung.

> 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...

Unfortunately no. This is the one that fixes 'keyboard' driver and is the same 
as we already have in ports. XFree86 uses 'keyboard' driver by default for 
keyboards.


Dejan