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SubjectRe: handling an oddball PS/2 keyboard (w/ patch)
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 12:58:43AM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 11:22:10AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>
> > This is intentional. Set 3 was never meant to be translated.
>
> In fact it is just the opposite. Set 3 was designed to be translated.
> Look at the translated codes:
> Q (10), W (11), E (12), R (13), T (14), Y (15), U (16), I (17), O (18), P (19).
> Completely regular.
> Now look at the untranslated codes:
> Q (15), W (1d), E (24), R (2d), T (2c), Y (35), U (3c), I (43), O (44), P (4d).
> Messy.

Not at all. If you draw the whole keyboard, you can see the underlying
matrix of the Set3 codes.

And most importantly, there are more than a few set3 keyboards which have
scancodes which cannot be translated safely (either > 0x80 or codes like
0x7e).

--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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