Subject: Re: Jornada 680 keyboard mapping
To: Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>
From: Michael Wileman <jwileman@panix.com>
List: port-hpcsh
Date: 06/27/2005 00:10:56
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 22:14:06 -0400, Michael Wileman wrote:
>
>> I have hpcsh working pretty well now, except for the keyboard mapping.
>> I have the European English keyboard, but cannot find the correct
>> wsconsctl encoding for it. Can anyone tell me what I have to do to
>> get the correct encoding?
>
> My fault.  I didn't bother to put all the AltGr characters into the
> kernel map:
>
> /*
> * XXX: Add AltGr layer for #ABB here?  OTOH, all the keys necessary
> * for basic actions in DDB or shell are on the primary layer, so it
> * makes sense to support AltGr via wsconsctl(8) instead, as the same
> * primary layer is used e.g. in Russian models.  But it does make
> * sense to define the <AltGr> key itself here, as we base this layout
> * on KB_US that defines it as the right <Alt>.
> */

It's funny because I cannot even get Alt-gr to be recognized. In the 
default configuration (seems to be US) it gives me "/". In some of the 
others it is "-".

> You can write your own keymap and load it via /etc/wscons.conf 
> mapfile directive.
>
> keycode   2 = 1 exclam exclamdown
> keycode   3 = 2 at twosuperior
> keycode   4 = 3 numbersign threesuperior
> ...

Thanks. Is there some documentation somewhere for what these are. Some 
of the characters I do not even recognize, but there should be a list 
somewhere of which keys generate which keycode, and what each 
character's name is in netbsd. No?

Mike