On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On mar, 2008-12-16 at 03:14 +0100, Jens Rutschmann wrote: > > I gave the git log of the evdev driver a short look and after seeing > > this commit > > I'm not very confident that it will be able to handle such events > > anytime soon... > > > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-evdev/commit/?id=7243116f55609a2a5f73bb88cf6ad6386c9bbc0b > > > Yup, Julien Cristau just confirmed me on IRC that there was no way for X > get keycode over 255. Then they will have to come up with some hard hack, maybe using modifiers, to work around that braindamage. Because keyboards NEED more than 256 code points in Linux and anything else doing modern keyboard translation, nowadays... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
