From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: <jason@openinformatics.com>
Cc: Ethan Blanton <eblanton@cs.ohiou.edu>, <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Shift keycodes on the iBook
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 22:15:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020903201527.3753@192.168.4.1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87znuzksx9.fsf@openinformatics.com>
>> >Is this a hardware limitation, or just a limitation of the current
>> >maps? If it is the latter, can it be easily fixed? I'm willing to
>> >provide whatever information is necessary if the problem is just that
>> >the appropriate developer needs information about the iBook keyboard.
>>
>> AFAIK, it's a HW limitation (or at least a limitation of the PMU's
>> firmware), there is no workaround I know about.
>
>The interesting thing is that was what was believed for years about
>the locking capslock key as well...
The locking capslock is in HW as well, there is a hack to turn capslock
into some different key, but it's really a hack.
Ben.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-03 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-31 5:56 Shift keycodes on the iBook Ethan Blanton
2002-09-02 17:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-09-03 15:13 ` Jason E. Stewart
2002-09-03 19:21 ` Michel Lanners
2002-09-03 20:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-09-05 6:03 ` Michel Lanners
2002-09-05 8:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-09-05 23:39 ` Segher Boessenkool
2002-09-03 20:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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