From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Why is the Powerbook Fn-Key handled differently? From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Matthias Grimm Cc: LinuxPPC-Dev In-Reply-To: <3C5ED0F9.5060908@cymes.de> References: <3C5ED0F9.5060908@cymes.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 05 Feb 2002 11:03:43 +0100 Message-Id: <1012903423.1594.533.camel@pismo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 19:20, Matthias Grimm wrote: > I own an Powerbook G3 which has a Fn-Key for his special functions. > During my kernel source studies I learned that there are two keyboard > drivers: 1. The old machintosh keyboard driver and > 2. The new event driven Human Input Device from Vojtech Pavlik > > The old driver map the scancode for the Fn-Key to a different value and > passes it to the Kernel keyboard driver. The new HID filters the Fn-Key > completely out, as the attached code fragments below show. > > Is there any reason to cut out the Fn-Key in the new input driver? > Nevertheless the Fn-Key is hard wired with the special keys and the > number block, it would helpful to have an additional qualifier key on > this small keyboard. If the fn key generates a keycode, existing shortcuts involving it won't work anymore, will they? I'm specifically thinking of stuff like ctrl-alt-{+,-} to switch resolutions in X. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/