From: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@develer.com>
To: Fredrik Olausson <fredrik@olaussons.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aeb@cwi.nl
Subject: Re: bad scancode for USB keyboard
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 02:58:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FFE0AD0.7040609@develer.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FFDF67A.5060807@olaussons.net>
Fredrik Olausson wrote:
> I have found a solution to the problem.
> XFree86 has 2 keyboard drivers, the default one named "keyboard" and an
> alternative one named "kbd" which according to documentation on the
> XFree86 website is a new keyboard driver mostly written from scratch.
> With the kbd-driver the print-screen key and the |\-key got different
> keycodes and thus I could make the |\-key give me the proper characters.
>
> So, to summarize. Simply changing the line:
> Driver "keyboard"
> to
> Driver "kbd"
> in the input-device section in the XF86Config file and fiddling a bit
> with xmodmap solved the problem for me.
That's good news, and I'd never heard about a new keyboard driver in
XFree86... It's indeed a project full of undocumented and obscure
features.
Err... what did you exactly say on the xmodmap command line to get
it to work? -)
--
// Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept.
\X/ http://www.develer.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-09 1:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-03 16:37 bad scancode for USB keyboard Bernardo Innocenti
[not found] ` <3FFB6A5D.9030606@olaussons.net>
2004-01-07 2:27 ` Bernardo Innocenti
2004-01-07 8:51 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-07 19:35 ` Bernardo Innocenti
2004-01-09 0:31 ` Fredrik Olausson
2004-01-09 1:58 ` Bernardo Innocenti [this message]
2004-01-11 16:30 ` Eduard Bloch
2004-01-11 18:44 ` [PATCH] " Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-14 13:54 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-14 13:59 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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