Evdev support in Kdrive

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Fri Dec 9 09:32:19 PST 2005


On Wednesday 07 December 2005 07:17, Ander Conselvan de Oliveira wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm planning to implement support for de event device input layer in
> Kdrive.

Do note that some of this has already been done.  See hw/kdrive/linux/evdev.c.

> I have two questions:
>
> 1) There is a command line option that sets the virtual terminal the
> server should use. Should this option be replaced by a generic option
> -keyboard?

Probably.

> 2) The evdev keycodes are different from the codes generated by the tty
> layer. Should the keycodes be mapped inside the evdev input layer to the
> linux keycodes or there should be a new model/rule in xkb config files?

What I did in Xorg was to make a new keycodes and kepmap file for evdev.  See:

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3912

- ajax
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