From: "Iain Sandoe" <iain@sandoe.co.uk>
To: Tony Mantler <nicoya@apia.dhs.org>,
martin costabel <costabel@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: "michel dänzer" <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: XF4, SysRq, VT, mouse buttons, Keymaps and all that
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:16:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010418131708.CDFE02EFC5@apollo.valhalla.net> (raw)
>>Anyway the SysRq key for USB must be handled somewhere else - I'm looking at
>>the mac_hid/adb/mac_keyb code which is specific to adb-based machines IIUC.
>
> Ah, ok. Wasn't sure about that.
duh... neither am I ;-) ... but I'll check later.
>
> [...]
>>Ben just mailed me a much better suggestion:
>>
>>"Pass the SysRq combination in as a kernel argument".
>>
>>This would allow those with SysRQ keys (e.g. ISO/ANSI kbds) to use it, power
>>books could have something that actually exists etc. etc.
> [...]
>
> Very nice idea.
>
> ...hopefully defaulted to the standard Alt-f13/printscreen/sysrq-key in the
> absense of the kernel commandline.
what about defaulting to <cntl>-<power> if CONFIG_POWERBOOK is set on the
kernel build?
- the power key is not too far from cntl on newer PowerBook keyboards -
anyone know about older ones?
Iain.
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next reply other threads:[~2001-04-18 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-18 13:16 Iain Sandoe [this message]
2001-04-18 13:23 ` XF4, SysRq, VT, mouse buttons, Keymaps and all that Tony Mantler
2001-04-18 15:18 ` Michel Dänzer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-19 14:36 Iain Sandoe
2001-04-19 19:32 ` Martin Costabel
2001-04-20 10:12 ` Franz Sirl
2001-04-21 22:45 ` Martin Costabel
2001-04-21 22:59 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-04-18 12:44 Iain Sandoe
2001-04-18 13:06 ` Tony Mantler
2001-04-18 13:39 ` Gabriel Paubert
2001-04-18 14:54 ` Franz Sirl
2001-04-18 16:10 ` Gabriel Paubert
2001-04-18 12:03 Iain Sandoe
2001-04-18 12:13 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-04-18 12:24 ` Tony Mantler
2001-04-18 9:03 Iain Sandoe
2001-04-18 11:40 ` Martin Costabel
2001-04-18 0:28 Iain Sandoe
2001-04-18 3:40 ` Tony Mantler
2001-04-18 4:04 ` Steven Hanley
2001-04-18 0:06 Iain Sandoe
2001-04-18 0:08 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-04-17 21:14 Iain Sandoe
2001-04-17 22:15 ` Michel Dänzer
2001-04-17 22:49 ` Martin Costabel
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