From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Cory Maccarrone <darkstar6262@gmail.com>
Cc: me@felipebalbi.com, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Modifying the kernel keymap
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:54:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091116205416.GP3684@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6cb013310911151442x2ecf9d2dnbfa6fbb7f6ca3b89@mail.gmail.com>
* Cory Maccarrone <darkstar6262@gmail.com> [091115 14:49]:
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 12:06 -0800, Cory Maccarrone wrote:
> >> All,
> >>
> >> I'm working with the Wing Linux and Linwizard projects in porting
> >> various omap850-based devices to Linux, and was wondering about
> >> keymaps.
> >>
> >> In particular, I'm working with the HTC Herald, which uses an Alt key
> >> to access things like numbers and symbols on a physical keyboard. In
> >> Linux, the keymappings are wrong for this -- Alt does something
> >> different and doesn't allow access to those extra characters.
> >>
> >> In Linwizard, we've modified the defkeymap and added makefile rules to
> >> compile our modified defkeymap when a specific board was selected, but
> >> this isn't portable when building a kernel for many boards at once,
> >> each having a different mapping.
> >>
> >> So, my question is, what is the best way to go about changing the
> >> defkeymap, or supplying a keymap that allows all the keys to function
> >> correctly, but doesn't require non-portable makefile hacks?
> >
> > how about letting xmodmap handle that ? If you use alt key, then kernel
> > passes alt key. Userland can later remap that key to some other
> > function.
> >
> > --
> > balbi
> >
> >
> >
>
> For X-based interfaces that would work, and there's an equivalent for
> Android too. My question is more geared towards the console (i.e. no
> X or Android, just plain linux console).
Maybe post the patch for reference to linux-input list? Please Cc this
list too, it will be interesting to see what Dmitry suggests.
IMHO, we should find a way to support various keyboards with platform_data
specified keymaps in order to use the shell with standard distros.
Tony
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-16 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-15 20:06 Modifying the kernel keymap Cory Maccarrone
2009-11-15 22:31 ` Felipe Balbi
2009-11-15 22:42 ` Cory Maccarrone
2009-11-16 20:54 ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
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