On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Karsten Merker wrote: > > Hmm, why do you need (sh*tty) PC-compatible keycodes for a keaboard that > > barely resembles a PC keyboard? AFAIK, XFree86 has appropriate LK201 > > keymaps -- see "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/*/digital/*". > > Because the original code does not deliver LK201 keycodes - LK201 keycodes > are in the range 0x55 - 0xfb, but the kernel to my knowledge accepts only > keycodes in the range 0x01 - 0x7f, so the original code already did a > remapping of the LK201 raw codes (it delivered the key numbers from the > top left to the downmost right keys, i.e. F1=1, F2=2, F3=3 etc.). This may be reasonable for the pc_keyb.c driver, but we don't use it, do we? > This means that the XFree LK201 mapping did not work, and if we have > to remap keycodes anyway into the range 0x01-0x7f, using a PC-compatible > keymap seemed the best solution to me. Then the kernel needs to be fixed -- raw scancodes should be passed as is and the translation should be done in kbd_translate(). I'm adding it to my to-do list (to be resolved soon, hopefully, together with the annoying indefinite timeout when no keyboard is attached). -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
