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From: veit@fanoe.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: Holger Veit's codrv with XFree86 1.2
Message-ID: <1993Mar4.100943.19285@gmd.de>
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References: <C3BLto.4zy@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 10:09:43 GMT
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In article <C3BLto.4zy@cs.mcgill.ca>, storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc
Wandschneider) writes:
|>
|>
|> I recently grabbed the binaries for XFree86 1.2 from agate, and
|> grabbed
|> all the codrv and pccons stuff in order to defer any decision on
|> the matter.
|>
|> However, now I have to choose, and I'm not sure what's up:
|>
|> I've been using the codrv kernel that comes with the package, and
|> it's quite
|> the cool piece of software, but the XFree README.386BSD says that I
|> still
|> have to ftp some sort of keyboard driver.
|> So, do I have to:
|>
|> a> do nothing---the supplied kernel has all this
|> b> get the 0.2.1 patchkit, Holger Veit's Keyboard driver, and try
|> to rebuild
|> the kernel this way
|> c> Something else that my small mind has missed...?
The "codrv" binary kernel has the kernel support already in, so it
works, if
you have an US keyboard and do not want to modify the keyboard map.
Otherwise
you need a utility, named 'keymap' and some configuration files, which
are
available in the 'keycap-0.1.1.tar.Z' file. Of course you have to
compile
and install keymap properly according the instructions to use all the
features codrv has in addition, but this shouldn't be a problem.
You do not need to recompile the kernel; I think Rich has prepared a
state-of-the-art kernel with the latest patchkit fixes available
to the release date; and I guess he will update the kernel binaries
if
necessary.
Addition: be sure to have the Xserver XFree86-1.2-codrv-fix1.tar.Z,
which is the
actual version.
Hope that helps
Holger
|> storm@cs.mcgill.ca McGill P.O.W Camp "Oh
|> crap---It's not
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