-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On Jan 24, 2008, at 13:22, Patrick Welche wrote:
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:45:55AM -0500, Michael wrote:I think I know what's wrong - our PS/2 keyboard driver identifies itself as an XT keyboard but in event mode ( reading from /dev/wskbd* ) it translates AT extended scancodes ( that's more or less every key that's present on an AT keyboard but not an XT one ) to not-really-standard single byte codes which the kbd driver in X ignores because it expects XT codes and maybe AT multibyte codes. So what I need to do is to add another translation table to said driver to deal with those codes. Hopefully that will make those keyswork. Doing the same thing for Xorg will be trivial. Talk about an ancient bug.I was bemused by the comment in pckbd.c:* XXX It would perhaps be a better choice to just use AT scan codes* and not bother with this. Is that sensible?
Depends. We definitely want one event per keypress, not multiple ones like extended AT scancodes. Besides that, we should convert all keyboard drivers to report USB keyboard scancodes so we can get rid of additional translation tables in X and to make /dev/wskbd useful for different kinds of keyboards, like USB and ADB, Sun or PS/2. Think of an Apple laptop with ADB keyboard and a USB keypad.
have funMichael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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