Hi, On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 12:06 -0800, Cory Maccarrone wrote: > All, > > I'm working with the Wing Linux and Linwizard projects in porting > various omap850-based devices to Linux, and was wondering about > keymaps. > > In particular, I'm working with the HTC Herald, which uses an Alt key > to access things like numbers and symbols on a physical keyboard. In > Linux, the keymappings are wrong for this -- Alt does something > different and doesn't allow access to those extra characters. > > In Linwizard, we've modified the defkeymap and added makefile rules to > compile our modified defkeymap when a specific board was selected, but > this isn't portable when building a kernel for many boards at once, > each having a different mapping. > > So, my question is, what is the best way to go about changing the > defkeymap, or supplying a keymap that allows all the keys to function > correctly, but doesn't require non-portable makefile hacks? how about letting xmodmap handle that ? If you use alt key, then kernel passes alt key. Userland can later remap that key to some other function. -- balbi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
