Keyboard Xorg 6.8.2 Sparc Ultra 2

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Tuesday 29 of March 2005 01:41, Michael G. Jung wrote:
> Dejan:
>
> I'll try to test "xorg-server-sparc64-enabledepreckeyboard.diff" tommorow
> when I am back in the office.
>
> I'll be happy to make a post on the Xorg list after testing, can
> you tell me though is the list "ok/cool/hip" with the FreeBSD ports
> patch/install system -or- will they be expecting that I had compiled
> the source tree from scratch and report problems against that.
>
> If they expect me to compile from source I'll attempt that before
> posting.
>
> Please advise.
>
> --mikej

Heh, you can see what the list is like through archives:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/

The patch above only enables the deprecated keyboard driver for keyboard. The 
point is rather that this is not a long-term solution. This 'keyboard' driver 
is scheduled to go away in next major release and so enabling it will of 
course be no longer possible. What is needed is to get the new 'kbd' driver 
to work (and this is where I failed).
Furthermore, the old keyboard driver also doesn't work out of the box - in 
ports there is a patch that is also submitted to bugzilla:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1722

However, I see now that there seems to be similar bug at:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2587
This seems to be the same issue. If you could followup on that bug explaining 
that the same issue exists on FreeBSD, that would be great.


Dejan