Subject: Re: Extended Keyboard
To: Kevin Havener <havenerk@Walden.MO.NET>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/18/1998 22:13:35
Kevin Havener wrote:
>
> What do I have to do to make my Q650 running NetBSD 1.3 recognize/utilize
> an extended keyboard. Actually, I think the bootup messages indicate
> that an extended keyboard is recognized. OK, the numerical keypad works,
> too. The most important thing to me is the arrow keys. Using hjkl in vi
> is killing me. My fingers automatically go to the arrow keys. On my
> linux box, the arrow keys work as you would expect. Is this because on
> my linux system vi==vim or is it because my linux system uses ncurses or
> is it some other keyboard mapping doodad? I am aware that the arrows map
> to the 2nd and 3rd buttons on a 3-button mouse, but isn't that in
> conjunction with an alt/command/ctrl key? Any suggestions welcome.
Is this on the console? I'm using one on my Q700 under X and the arrow
keys work just fine. However, the console just might be a different
story. From time to time, I've noticed that they cause problems. I'm not
sure of a solution outside of the kernel, but I'd recommend just using X
unless you have a strong reason not to do so. Alternatively, I think that
the 'dt' utility should handle an extended keyboard just fine as well. If
I get a chance, I'm going to come up with a slightly more permanent
solution for this one.
Later.
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Colin Wood cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6 Intel Corporation
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