On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:40:31AM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 21:37 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 10:47 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > >> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> > These keys are found on remote bundled with > > >> > Toshiba Qosmio F50-10q. > > >> > > > >> > Found and tested by, Sami R <maesesami@xxxxxxxxx> > > >> > > > >> > Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx> > > >> > --- > > >> > drivers/media/IR/keymaps/rc-rc6-mce.c | 3 +++ > > >> > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > > > > > Tommorow I will resend that patch with even more scancodes. > > > > Saw the discussion on irc. Feel your pain big-time on the X server > > limitation on keycodes. Its put a big damper on efforts to add native > > support to mythtv. Peter Hutterer's libXi2 cookbook tutorials talk a > > good game about how libXi2 supports 32-bit keycodes, but neglects to > > mention that the X server still gobbles up anything above 248 or 255 > > or whatever it is, and remedying that is no small task. :( > > > > I think for mythtv, we're going to end up having a daemon process with > > elevated privs that reads directly from input devices to get around > > this annoyance, until such time as the annoyance is gone. > > Btw, indeed Xi2 still doesn't pass > 248 keycodes, just tested that with > -git versions of X stack from about 2 months ago. > However this can be fixed relatively easily. > Maybe even I could do that. > > The big problem is however about ability to map extended keycodes to > actions, thing that should be provided by XKB2, which we will see > probably when DNF is released on Phantom console... > Also this will need lots of changes in toolkits. > Thats the problem I don't have resources to fix. Yeah, that's exactly what I got from Peter when I was asking him about this issue on irc -- X server can be modified fairly easily, but there's the arduous and undesirable task of making all the toolkits and whatnot behave again, and nobody in their right mind really *wants* to dig into xkb. :) -- Jarod Wilson jarod@xxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
