Re: Xfree86 bug related.

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:48:16PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Looks like a kernel warning.  XFree86 accesses a lot of hardware
> directly, by design.  I'm not sure it's fair for the kernel to
> say that is a bug, however I would certainly agree that it isn't 
> the best possible design for the Linux usage case.

Its a bug in XFree86 or maybe even the build

> If the kernel error above implies half of XFree86's keyboard
> support should be thrown out and rewritten though to please the
> Linux kernel, then I welcome patches from kernel people (or
> anyone) to implement that.  ;o)

If you build XFree86 properly then it should use the stuff already
present for keyboard control via ioctl. X has the stuff, and since
Linux 2.4.x added the keyboard rate reprogramming ioctl shouldnt
be touching the ports directly.

The ports X touches may not even exist or may be reassigned on legacy
free systems (thankfully nobody has reassigned them on production boards)

Alan