Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Mar 2000 08:50:32 -0800 (PST) | From | John Alvord <> | Subject | Re: Kernel patch: keyboard. |
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi! > > > > I have tested this on ten keyboards, five of them under Debian 2.1, > > > three under Suse 6.2 and two under a-kind-of-red-hat-5.1, and worked > > > OK under all of them. I hope to see this patch included in, at > > > least, a prepatch version of the kernel :)))) > > > > > > Well, this patch is about these three new keys that some new > > > keyboards have: suspend, resume and poweroff. These keys don't work > > > on Linux by default, and I have decoded their scancodes and included > > > them in the kernel keyboard conversion tables. > > > > Very good! > > > > Unfortunately, these days there are many new keyboards, with dozens > > of new keys, so it is impossible to assign each key its own keycode > > (since for the time being keycodes are restricted to the range > > 1-127). > > Andreas, these are special. If you go and buy new keyboard, it will > have those nasty keys. It is not like those "multimedia" keys which > differ from keyboard to keyboard -- this is more like L-window, > R-window and Menu "windows95" keys.
Maybe there is a business... making penquin-style stickon keytops. john
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