[PATCH 2/2] Xdmx.man: additional updates to modernize XKB information
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Sat Jun 11 10:59:14 PDT 2011
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
---
hw/dmx/man/Xdmx.man | 8 +++++---
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/hw/dmx/man/Xdmx.man b/hw/dmx/man/Xdmx.man
index df148dd..c29dbd1 100644
--- a/hw/dmx/man/Xdmx.man
+++ b/hw/dmx/man/Xdmx.man
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-.\" $XFree86$
.\"
.\" Copyright 2001-2004 Red Hat Inc., Durham, North Carolina.
.\" All Rights Reserved.
@@ -11,7 +10,7 @@
.\" and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
.\" subject to the following conditions:
.\"
-.\" he above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the
+.\" The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the
.\" next paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial
.\" portions of the Software.
.\"
@@ -141,6 +140,9 @@ initialize the keyboard. For an SGI keyboard, ",xkb,sgi/indy(pc102)"
might be useful. A list of keycodes, symbols, and geometries can be
found in
.IR __xkbdir__ .
+Use of keycodes, symbols and geometries for XKB configuration is
+deprecated in favor of the rules, layout, model, variant and options
+settings availble via the -param command line switch.
If this option is not specified, the input device will be queried,
perhaps using the XKEYBOARD extension.
.RE
@@ -361,7 +363,7 @@ Defaults to "__XKB_DFLT_RULES__". Other values may include "sgi" and "sun".
.sp
.TP 8
.B XkbModel
-Defaults to "__XKB_DFLT_MODEL__". When used with "xfree86" rules, other values
+Defaults to "__XKB_DFLT_MODEL__". When used with "base" rules, other values
may include "pc102", "pc104", "microsoft", and many others. When
used with "sun" rules, other values may include "type4" and "type5".
.sp
--
1.7.3.2
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