Subject: Re: "french"'ised NetBSD available
To: Jasper Wallace <jasper@pointless.net>
From: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: current-users
Date: 05/29/1999 15:55:06
jasper@pointless.net said:
> There is a two byte keyboard ID you can get from them (as per attached
> patch (for 1.4)), i don't know wether it just identifies keyboards vs.
> mice or weither it does actually report different keyboards... 

That's mostly useless - almost every keyboard will return
the "ab 41", independently of the layout or language.
(Even the DEC LK451 etc, which look really different.)
There seem to be exceptions - I believe some HP keyboards
return something else, but only to identify the brand,
not the language afaik.

best regards
Matthias