Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (824 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

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
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