[indiana-discuss] No keyboard layout detection in 2008.05?

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Wed Apr 30 11:28:03 PDT 2008


Dave Miner wrote:
> Laurent Blume wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've given a quick test run to the latest test image, and my first
>> impression was, why wasn't my Sun keyboard layout detected? Solaris does it.
>>
> 
> We're not using the same code for keyboard setting at this point.  The 
> automatic detection code is of pretty limited use these days, from what 
> I'm told; almost no modern keyboards identify themselves.

All Sun keyboards do - I believe Apple ones may as well, but virtually no
one else's do.

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