Keyboard problewm

Keyboard problewm

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

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 ?


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Re: Keyboard problewm

[Joseph Garcia]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 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

this may be unrelated, but i've noticed that with XF3.3.5, the META key, which
is ALT on PCs and command/apple key on macs, has been remapped to the option,
which on my powerbook is also labeled alt.  so to switch from console to X, i
use command, X to console - option.  i don't mind it much.  its just annoying to
find out what programs use X's keymap (option) and  not the other (kernel's?)
keymap (command) when i think they should be the same thing, or at least
mirroring.

$.02

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University of Wisconsin - Madison                            UW Lidar Group

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Perl with Hardware ??

[Franck Chionna]

I 'd like to develop an application in perl, working with
a modem, rtc phone and a specific protocol.

Is perl language be able to write an app controling hardware ??

Franck


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