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SubjectRe: Kernel patch: keyboard.
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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