freebsd stable - Mar 2020 - New Xorg - different key-codes

On 2020-Mar-11 10:29:08 +0100, Niclas Zeising <zeising at freebsd.org>
wrote:
>This has to do with switching to using evdev to handle input devices on 
>FreeBSD 12 and CURRENT.  There's been several reports, and suggested 
>solutions to this, as well as an UPDATING entry detailing the change.
The UPDATING entry says that it's switched from devd to udev.  There's
no
mention of evdev or that the keycodes have been roto-tilled.  It's basically
a vanilla "things have been changed, see the documentation" entry. 
Given
that entry, it's hardly surprising that people are confused.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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On Wednesday, 11 March 2020 13:53:45 CDT Peter Jeremy
wrote:
> On 2020-Mar-11 10:29:08 +0100, Niclas Zeising <zeising at
freebsd.org> wrote:
> >This has to do with switching to using evdev to handle input devices on
> >FreeBSD 12 and CURRENT.  There's been several reports, and
suggested
> >solutions to this, as well as an UPDATING entry detailing the change.
> 
> The UPDATING entry says that it's switched from devd to udev. 
There's no
> mention of evdev or that the keycodes have been roto-tilled.  It's
basically
> a vanilla "things have been changed, see the documentation"
entry.  Given
> that entry, it's hardly surprising that people are confused.
> 
Indeed, the change has been a bit inconvenient and time consuming to deal with.

But I don't think we should let this overshadow the dedication and very hard
work that Niclas and the graphics team have done and continue to do to keep
FreeBSD relevant on the desktop. I for one am very grateful for that.

-- 
Greg