Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 May 2004 21:57:09 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: keyboard problem with 2.6.6 |
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Sau Dan Lee wrote:
> Actually, I have a side issue with input/i8042 related things: The > keyboard on my laptop worked slightly different: On 2.4.*, SysRq is > activated using a [Fn] key-combo, which agrees with the keycap labels > on the laptop keyboard. After upgrading to 2.6, that key-combo no > longer works. Instead, I must use Alt-PrintScreen as the key for > SysRq. (And unfortunately, PrintScreen is a [Fn] combo on the laptop, > thus requiring press 3 keys at the same time for SysRq, and a fourth > key to use the various SysRq features. Very inconvenient.) Is this > again due to some dirty translation processes down in the input layer? > Is the input layer always assuming that Alt-PrintScreen == SysRq? > This is not always true. Can the input layer be so configured that it > never tries to interpret the scancodes, but pass them to the upper > layers?
So, what scancodes do you get in 2.4? And in 2.6? (Use scancode -s.)
Andries
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