Other pages related to "forking" are Fork homepage, fork machine. See also medved documentation.
Explanation of the pipeline from 2005 on the XFree86 ML.
After following these steps, you will be able to use "forking".
In the following code, I use zsh as shell.
Maybe netbsd has evdev equivalent: see "nanotime(&ev->time);" in wskbd.c. Documentation is in wsconsio.h
2.6.14-rc3 http://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2005/10/6/92/1
2.6.15-rc7 patch
2.6.16.9 patch (no more need for patching kernel/posix-timers.c)
cd /usr/src/linux; patch -p1 < the-saved-file.patch
make menuconfig
-> enable Device Drivers > Input > Event Interface (as Module)
and > USB > USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support
(or just ps/2 keyboard)
Unfortunately, current kernel "core" does not export do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime, so modules cannot use that function to obtain the monotonic time, so you will have to (re)boot a kernel with my patch applied. If it were exported you could simply reload the patched evdev module.
note: Besides installing modules & bzImage, you need to install the patched header file before building XFree86:
cp -v /usr/src/linux/include/linux/input.h /usr/include/linux/input.h
You can compile all the following programs without running the new kernel. All that is needed is aforementioned /usr/include/linux/input.h.
(official instruction http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/)
Checkout the CVS source tree, and create a new directory to build in. Let's leave the source directory tree intact.
mkdir xfree86
cd xfree86
cvs -d anoncvs@anoncvs.xfree86.org:/cvs login
password "anoncvs"
cvs -d anoncvs@anoncvs.xfree86.org:/cvs co xc
(maybe read the xc/README)
To build in a separate directory:
mkdir build
cd build
lndir ../xc
Get the patch file and apply it inside the symlink tree, without overwriting original files:
$ ls xc build
wget http://www.ruska.it/comp/packages/medved-pipeline.patch
cd build patch --backup -p0 < ../medved-pipeline.patch
I do insted:
- cp -a --remove-destination -v ../xpatches/medved-plugin/* .
Then get the configuration and adapt to your needs:
If you have your config file, just add:
#define ExtraXInputDrivers medved #define BuildXKBPlugin YES #define HasMonotonicTime YES
...othwerwise you need to create it:
wget http://www.ruska.it/comp/packages/host.def -O build/config/cf/host.def
edit config/cf/host.def , in particular:
cd build (time make World >& world.log) &> time.log & or simply: make world
Then install:
make install make install.man make -k install.sdk (seems problematic, hence the "-k"; not my fault though)
make[5]: Entering directory `/x/cvs/xfree/build/programs/Xserver/mfb/module' install -c libmfb.a /usr/xfree86-4.6/lib/Server/modules/. install -c -m 0444 mfb.h /usr/xfree86-4.6/lib/Server/include install: cannot stat `mfb.h': No such file or directory make[5]: *** [install.sdk] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/x/cvs/xfree/build/programs/Xserver/mfb/module'
mfb.h is in /x/build/programs/Xserver/mfb/mfb.h and other 7 such problems!
or
installing driver SDK in programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux... make[7]: Entering directory `/x/xfree86/build/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux' install -c -m 0444 agpgart.h /usr/xfree86-4.6/lib/Server/include/linux install: impossibile fare stat di `agpgart.h': No such file or directory <example> #plugin ** Building the plugin & tools The patched XFree86 build will now use a different (more flexible) key handling, and the library is able to configure it. Now we build a plugin, which changes integrates with the new key handling system, and 2 packages which use the library calls to activate the plugin and to configure specifically that plugin. If you have portage (gentoo), the 3 packages can be built by "emerging" 2 packages: See how to include my ebuilds with [[portage]]: <example> gensync mmc (btw. I have alias emd="FEATURES=digest emerge") $ FEATURES=digest emerge xkb-plugin xkb-tools
if you don't have gentoo, do manually what the ebuilds would do:
wget http://www.ruska.it/comp/packages/xkb-plugin-2.7.tar.gz tar -xzf xkb-plugin-2.7.tar.gz cd xkb-plugin xmkmf make make install
This will install:
wget http://www.ruska.it/comp/packages/xkb-tools-1.7.tar.gz
tar -xzf xkb-tools-1.7.tar.gz cd xkb-tools cd libfork xmkmf && make && make install cd ../xplugin; xmkmf && make && make install
note: i wrote the Imakefiles with the help of xc/config/cf/Imake.rules
Again, using gentoo/portage is a big plus:
The libX11.so built contains 4 new calls, XkbSetPlugin and XkbPluginConfigure XkbPluginGetConfigur and XkbPluginCommand.
(nm -g /usr/xfree86-4.6/lib/libX11.so |grep 'xkb.*plugin')
Libfork translates higher-level requests for the "Fork" plugin into request for the XkbPluginConfigure. But to create a sufficiently expressive configuration language I used a scheme interpreter.
I use gauche (a scheme interpreter) and my gauche-xlib. So, you have to install Gauche. And my gauche-xlib extension.
emerge \=gauche-mmc-2 \=gauche-xlib-1.6
People without gentoo first have to install Gauche, then
wget http://www.ruska.it/comp/packages/gauche-mmc-2.tar.gz
wget http://www.ruska.it/comp/packages/gauche-xlib-1.6.tar.gz
untar ...
cd gauche-mmc; make install cd ../gauche-xlib; ./auto; make ; make installnote: gauche-mmc is full of crap. and gauche-xlib is binding to Xlib calls related to XKB, no drawing primitives!
But before runnning you should read that file :( It's my exact configuration: all keys on the "home row" fork! And the modifiers are on both left & right sides (not symetrically though).
Also, to take advantage of the Group+1 and Group+2 modifiers I have a lot of keysyms bound to letter keys.
Such configuration is not provided!
To fine tune the time parameters, i use a GUI program. And I also have a visualizer to see how I typed the recent keys.
(EE) Incomplete event read: No such device