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SubjectRe: keyboard problem with 2.6.6
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 03:46:14PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> > Thus, showkeys -s gave a garbage answer.
> >
> > Thanks for the report. It shows that resurrecting raw mode is even
> > more desirable than I thought at first.
>
> What for?

As you know, the keyboard/mouse situation in 2.6 is unfortunate.

I get a steady stream with letters from people complaining about
the keyboard utilities under 2.6. How can I answer and tell them
what the problem is? I need facts - raw data, so that I can
trace the path of this raw data through the kernel.

That is my reason I want a raw mode. Often I have to ask them
to boot 2.4 first to get reality, so that one afterwards is
in a better position to understand the fake reality of 2.6.

But apart from such debugging use, there is also the more
direct use: in order to assign a keycode to an unusual key
one first asks for the scancode using scancode -s, and then
assigns the keycode using setkeycodes. If scancode -s lies,
this fails.

Andries

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