Subject: Re: PS/2<->USB keyboard weirdness
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: current-users
Date: 02/27/2002 23:18:44
Peter Seebach wrote:
> I have a Belkin KVM switch which provides USB or PS/2 "outputs". I've
> used it successfully with a Mac. When I connect it to a NetBSD machine,
> the key which is normally \ or | becomes # (unshifted) or ~ (shifted).
>
> Everything else works normally. No key appears to prodice \ or |. And
> yet, connected to a Mac, it seemed to work fine.
>
> Anyone else seen anything like this? Surely, the USB keyboard spec isn't
> *that* random.
You might try turning on a lot of keyboard debug and looking at the
translation table.
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-- Lennart