From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: Map extra keys on compaq evo
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 23:18:45 -0500
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On Monday 01 November 2004 12:28 pm, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > With accurate list "hotkeys" could run with no configuration, but I am
> > > afraid maintaining accurate list of keys for each keyboard is way too
> > > much work.
> > 
> > The lists need to be kept _somewhere_, so why not have a userspace
> > database with a program that loads the description into the kernel at
> > boot, possibly using DMI as a hint to what keyboard is connected?
> 
> Doing dmi blacklist from userspace is going to be pretty
> painfull... Kernel already has all the infrastructure.
> 
> My preference is forget about providing list of keys (it never worked
> anyway), and just fixup few notebooks we know...

What about all those "multimedia" and "Internet" keyboards out there?

Plus I don't think using DMI is a good idea. Many people use 2 keyboards
with their laptops - built-in and external and DMI mapping will sure be
wrong for external keyboard. Theoretically it should be possible to have
several completely independent keyboards (at least as far as keycodes go).

I actually would love to set up X to have 2 keyboards with 2 different
layouts, I wonder if event keyboard driver can help here... And we'd have
to adjust setkeycodes too...

-- 
Dmitry
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