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DateThu, 18 Mar 2004 04:21:33 -0300 (BRT)
FromFrédéric_L._W._Meunier <>
SubjectRe: XFree86 seems to be being wrongly accused of doing the wrong thing
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 03:56:35AM -0300, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>
> > Wrongly ? I don't think so, as it has presumably been fixed in
> > XFree86 after 4.4.0.
> >
> > http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/changes.html:
> >
> > 6. Do the Linux KDKBDREP ioctl on the correct fd.  This
> > prevents the fallback that tries to directly program the
> > keyboard repeat rate, and the related warning messages that
> > recent Linux kernels generate (David Dawes).
> >
> > I'm attaching the patch I extracted from CVS.
> >
> > Vojtech, what about adding such information to your HOWTO ? And
> > better, adding the URL to atkbd.c, so people stop reporting it.
>
> I'll add the info and the URL into the HOWTO and kill the message.

Here are the URLs directly from CVS (just in case someone
doesn't trust the diff I sent):

http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_io.c.diff?r1=3.26&r2=3.27
http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_kbd.c.diff?r1=1.5&r2=1.6

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