Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 22 Aug 2002 22:39:42 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: Patch for PC keyboard driver's autorepeat-rate handling |
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 09:16:14PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 20:37, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > What it does for KDKBDREP is conform the text of kd.h, and I think > > conform what m68k has done for years (but I've never seen the m68k patch). > > Alan Stern is entirely right that the current 2.4 kernels and the > > current kbdrate program have different ideas about what KDKBDREP does. > > XFree86 assumes the existing m68k behaviour from the base m68k tree
A good pointer. And indeed,
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_io.c
has code virtually identical to the kbdrate code (indeed, most likely taken from kbdrate). So, it seems the kernel has to change, and (although I have not checked it) Alan Stern's patch may be the right thing.
Andries
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