Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:33:31 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: defkeymap making machine useless (was Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support) |
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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Yeah, I wasn't sure how to handle this. We try to keep the > > > msm/dream stuff in a state that doesn't break other parts of the > > > tree, but there doesn't seem to be support for different keymaps for > > > different devices. > > How it's supposed to work is that you have a specific keyboard driver > > and that emits PC keyboard codes into the core kernel using a > > translation table in your driver. > Of course, Dream does that. But that's not _nearly_ enough. Dream > lacks keys such as: esc, arrows, symbols (/;'[]\-=). That means that > for +, you can't press shift-=, you need to press altgr-P.
I don't seem to have enough context, but wouldn't writing a separate serio driver, which would do all the needed translations be enough here?
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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