From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:48:33 +0200 To: Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Keyboard problewm Message-Id: <19990928154833.028330@mailhost.mipsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi ! There is a problem with current pmac kernels which I've not been able to fix so far, the keyboard code in the kernel is still beyond my understanding. Basically, the problem if whatever you define in your userland keymaps (console keymap or X keymap), the alt-shift-key combos never work. That's annoying since french keyboards use them extensively for things like "|" or "\". We can still remap them to something else, but it's less consistent with MacOS behaviour. This used to work, a long time ago. I remember this was broken, I think, near the end of 2.1.xxx or the beginning of 2.2.x. According to various users reports here in France, for some time, vger kernels still worked while Paul trees were broken until the "feature" got merged from Paul to vger. The keycodes for option and shift are correctly forwarded to userland in raw mode, the problem seems to be with translation. But I really don't know how the h... this translation stuff works. Any clues ? -- Perso. e-mail: Work e-mail: BenH. Web : ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/