From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:46:57 +0200 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Keyboard and keymaps Message-Id: <19990407154657.012380@mail.mipsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: While I'm working on ADB, I would like to also fix the problem of linux-pmac lacking international keymaps for all Apple keyboards. Basically, I plan to build some kind of conversion tool that takes Apple KCHRs and build the appropriate linux keymaps. Could someone point me to the appropriate documentation or how-to's about linux keybaord handling, I must admit I'm a little bit lost. If I undestand things correctly, keymaps are somewhat "compiled" and then copied inside the kernel by the userland tools from the kbd package. Is there some specific documentation about this or should I just spend more time reading the source ? Are the tables in mac_keyb.c the ones that are replaced by userland, or is there a 2-tables indirection ? How does linux handle dead keys and things like that ? And finally, I think there's a different mecanism for X. I would appreciate if someone could point me to the correct documentations for all this or give me a quick explanation on the "big picture", I can then figure out the details from the source. -- E-Mail: BenH. Web : [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]