Re: Modifying the kernel keymap

[Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com>]

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