Re: XI2 = moving target?

2009-07-25 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Peter Hutterer wrote: - When will the XI2 API be finalized? I think it is now, though I have to have a final glossover on monday to make sure I didn't forget anything. Quick question: What's the maximum number of keys per keyboard it supports? Thanks :)

Re: XI2 = moving target?

2009-07-25 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 05:43:50PM +1000, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Peter Hutterer wrote: - When will the XI2 API be finalized? I think it is now, though I have to have a final glossover on monday to make sure I didn't forget anything. Quick question: What's the

Re: XI2 = moving target?

2009-07-25 Thread Maxim Levitsky
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 12:12 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: For curiosity's sake, have people actually seen keyboards with more than 248 keys? No, but plenty with keycodes 256 (Most TV remotes fail in this category, and I still am waiting for limit of 256 keycodes to be lifted) -

Re: XI2 = moving target?

2009-07-25 Thread Jim Gettys
That isn't a good reason: keycodes are arbitrary, a simple table lookup to remap them to 8-255 is an easy solution, much easier than the alternatives, unless I'm missing something... - Jim Maxim Levitsky wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 12:12 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: For

Re: XI2 = moving target?

2009-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le samedi 25 juillet 2009 à 13:31 -0400, Jim Gettys a écrit : That isn't a good reason: keycodes are arbitrary, a simple table lookup to remap them to 8-255 is an easy solution, much easier than the alternatives, unless I'm missing something... keycodes are not arbitrary, the codes 255 have

Re: [ANNOUNCE] fixesproto 4.1

2009-07-25 Thread Paul Bender
Has anyone compiled this with only stable/released packages (i.e. with not *.99.* packages)? Since compiling fixesproto 4.1 with the latest released xorg packages results in the error message Package 'FixesProto' requires 'xextproto = 7.0.99.1' but version of XExtProto is 7.0.4 when

Re: Kernel 2.6.30.1 Oops on Alpha Architecture when starting Xserver

2009-07-25 Thread Dave Airlie
The kernel oops is: So its a machine check, So, does this indicate a software fault (e.g. inconsistencies in kernel data structures) or does it imply a hardware fault? Well X is trying to post the graphics card you have installed, and the machine is falling over when it does it. SRM

Re: XI2 = moving target?

2009-07-25 Thread Jim Gettys
Nicolas, In the original X11 design and keyboard system, keycodes are arbitrary, and need not have anything to do with the codes produced by the hardware (which are often quite baroque, and often formed by multiple character transmissions from the keyboard to the host). Just because the

Re: XI2 = moving target?

2009-07-25 Thread Jim Gettys
I guess I'm still confused... So they'd show up as different devices with time; each time you get notification that the keysym mapping for the keycodes have changed. Why is there a problem? - Jim Alan Cox wrote: Ergo my question on whether anyone has ever actually

Re: XI2 = moving target?

2009-07-25 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 07:59:54PM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 12:12 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: For curiosity's sake, have people actually seen keyboards with more than 248 keys? No, but plenty with keycodes 256 (Most TV remotes fail in this category, and I still am

Re: XI2 = moving target?

2009-07-25 Thread Maxim Levitsky
On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 10:37 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 07:59:54PM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 12:12 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: For curiosity's sake, have people actually seen keyboards with more than 248 keys? No, but plenty with