From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: <mlan@cpu.lu>, <jason@openinformatics.com>
Cc: <eblanton@cs.ohiou.edu>, <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Shift keycodes on the iBook
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 22:17:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020903201753.1227@192.168.4.1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17mJEj-00006u-00@piglet.grunz.lu>
>> The interesting thing is that was what was believed for years about
>> the locking capslock key as well...
>
>Ah, but that depends on the specific model of keyboard. At least some of
>Apple's ADB keyboards _do_ indead have a mechanical capslock.
>
>I don't know for USB keyboards, but obviously the PowerBook keyboards
>have a regular (non-locking) key as capslock. Whether the lock is done
>in the ADB driver or in the keyboard controller, I don't know...
Actually, the lock itself isn't, but the keycode sent by the PMU behave
like a HW lock (and the LED is driven that way too).
In both cases, there may be ways to instruct the PMU to behave differently
but I don't know about them.
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-03 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-31 5:56 Shift keycodes on the iBook Ethan Blanton
2002-09-02 17:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-09-03 15:13 ` Jason E. Stewart
2002-09-03 19:21 ` Michel Lanners
2002-09-03 20:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2002-09-05 6:03 ` Michel Lanners
2002-09-05 8:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-09-05 23:39 ` Segher Boessenkool
2002-09-03 20:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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