On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:23:05PM +0200, Robin Knapp wrote: > M9. schrieb: >> Stephan Kulow schreef: >> >>> Am Wednesday 12 September 2007 schrieb M9.: >>> >>>> Personaly i think that hal (or whatever used hwdetection) is able to see >>>> what keybord layout is used, so i think that the choice would be >>>> obvious, from hardware point of vieuw, and thus could be preselected, >>>> without any problem. (except that it has to be implemented?) >>>> >>> Too bad you're wrong. >>> >>> Greetings, Stephan >>> >> >> Wrong? You say? >> >> At what point? >> That hardware detection can see what keybord-layout is used? >> Or that it has to be implemented? >> Or both? >> >> Do not say that it is not possible, the door shuts if you say those >> things.. ;-) >> > As far as I know there is no way to detect which letters are printed on the > keys and which letter is printed on which key. > In other words: The hardware is generic and only the labels differ from > layout to layout.
Exactly. You can easily see that as I type using the american keyboard layout on my laptop that is covered with Japanese keys. There is no way the hardware can report this, sorry. thanks, greg k-h --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
