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SubjectRe: KDSETKEYCODE work with new input layer?
Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:32:02AM -0400, Skip Ford wrote:
> > Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> >
> > setkeycodes rejects it.
> >
> > I changed setkeycodes.c to add 256 instead of 128 and bumped up the
> > bounds checking, but it's still strange. It now works for e063, but
> > still doesn't work for e05e. Many other keys in the same area as 0x5e
> > don't work. The only one that does work that I tried is e063.
>
> There is another thing that has changed - the scancode numbers. So if
> you're using the same commands as on 2.4, you're setting scancodes for
> different keys. We now use 'at keyboard - set 2' scancodes as opposed to
> 'xt keyboard - set 1' used by the older driver. See the 'dmesg' output
> for keys ("unknown scancode ...") that are not known to the keyboard
> driver.

showkey is still showing me the same scancodes. The new AT driver
doesn't log any 'unknown scancode' messages for the same buttons the
old XT driver did.

> > Will you be releasing an updated kbd package?
>
> Well, I'm not the maintainer of the kbd package, but I probably will
> have to release a new tool to set the keycode table.

Sorry about that. Didn't mean to volunteer you. Thanks for all your
help. I'll try to verify the scancodes I'm using.

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