Re: Completely disable AT/PS2 keyboard support in 2.4?

[Jurgen Kramer <gtm.kramer@inter.nl.net>]

My arrow keys are working just fine. The "can't emulate rawmode for
keycode" messages seem to appear without a key being pressed. The
keyboard or the keyboard receiver (it's a wireless keyboard) is probably
just sending out keycodes at will...


On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 15:34, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On 9 Jun 2003, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
> > Is it possible to completely disable AT/PS2 keyboard support
> > in 2.4 or is this still needed when I only use a USB keyboard?
> > 
> > I am currently getting dozens of keyboard messages:
> > 
> > keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
> > keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
> > keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
> > keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
> > keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
> > keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
> > keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
> > keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272
> > 
> > I am not sure if the comes from the USB keyboard or from
> > the non-connected PS2 port.
> 
> In 2.4.x, the input layer converts input events to PC/AT scancodes, and still
> relies on the PS/2 low-level keyboard driver scancode conversion to interprete
> them. This means you must include the PS/2 low-level keyboard driver. If you
> don't, you may get strange results, especially on architectures where you have
> a different low-level keyboard driver.
> 
> BTW, I guess your arrow keys are not working?
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
> 						Geert
> 
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