From: Martin Costabel <costabel@wanadoo.fr>
To: Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: New input layer and ADB (Was Re: CONFIG_PPC != Mac)
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 00:35:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3988A242.90228AB0@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.10.10008030011181.14639-100000@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de
Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> > > Sometimes after a console switch, I end up in capslock mode. Switching
> > > capslock on then gives lowercase letters (except the letter "L"). After
> > > a further console switch, things return to normal.
> >
> > That's normal. With PC keyboards, the LED state of the Caps Lock key is
> > controlled by Linux, while Mac (and Amiga) keyboards remember the Caps Lock
> > state in the keyboard. Hence if you do a VC switch to a VC where Caps Lock is
>
> Wrong for Mac. We explicitly set LED state from the keyboard bottom half
> if necessary (though it stopped working consistently sometime in 2.1
> IIRC).
>
> The CapsLock on ADB keyboards is worth a million laughs actually. It
> is sticky by hardware, and never sends a key up event, only key down. See
> mac_keyb.c.
In any case, Franz's typo fix (lost "!") makes the problem disappear\x13and
everything works as it should: VCs remember their capslock state
independently of what the capslock key itself remembers.\x13
--
Martin
\x11 \x13
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-08-02 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-28 23:57 CONFIG_PPC != Mac Dan Malek
2000-07-29 16:38 ` Tom Rini
2000-07-29 17:26 ` Tony Mantler
2000-07-29 17:40 ` Dan Malek
2000-07-29 17:56 ` Tony Mantler
2000-07-30 2:24 ` Martin Costabel
2000-07-30 2:40 ` Tony Mantler
2000-07-30 2:59 ` Dan Malek
2000-07-31 12:12 ` Franz Sirl
2000-07-31 13:11 ` Martin Costabel
2000-07-31 13:37 ` Franz Sirl
2000-07-31 14:17 ` Andreas Tobler
2000-07-31 15:23 ` New input layer and ADB (Was Re: CONFIG_PPC != Mac) Martin Costabel
2000-08-02 12:47 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-08-02 22:16 ` Michael Schmitz
2000-08-02 22:35 ` Martin Costabel [this message]
2000-08-03 11:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
[not found] ` <4.3.2.7.2.20000731170153.03508c50@mail.lauterbach.com>
2000-07-31 15:27 ` CONFIG_PPC != Mac Andreas Tobler
2000-07-31 16:40 ` Michael Schmitz
2000-07-31 16:29 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-08-02 15:17 ` Dan Malek
2000-07-29 18:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-07-30 13:03 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-07-30 14:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-08-30 12:29 ` Platform configuration (was: Re: CONFIG_PPC != Mac) Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-08-31 10:54 ` Gabriel Paubert
2000-08-31 11:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-08-31 11:53 ` Gabriel Paubert
2000-08-31 15:17 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-08-31 15:58 ` Dan Malek
2000-08-31 16:10 ` Gabriel Paubert
2000-08-31 16:20 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-08-31 19:03 ` Joseph Garcia
2000-08-31 19:18 ` 2.4 problems Michel Dänzer
2000-08-31 19:25 ` Dan Malek
2000-08-31 20:36 ` Martin Costabel
2000-08-31 21:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-08-31 22:12 ` which kernel...? johnathan spectre
2000-08-31 22:35 ` Matt Brubeck
2000-09-01 1:12 ` 2.4 problems Martin Costabel
2000-09-01 10:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-09-10 17:59 ` Discrepancy in BAT mapping? Takashi Oe
2000-09-11 20:00 ` Michel Lanners
2000-09-12 9:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-08-31 21:30 ` 2.4 problems Michel Lanners
2000-09-05 13:48 ` Platform configuration (was: Re: CONFIG_PPC != Mac) Takashi Oe
2000-09-01 1:44 ` Tom Rini
2000-09-01 2:12 ` Dan Malek
2000-09-01 8:42 ` Timothy A. Seufert
2000-09-01 11:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-09-01 11:12 ` Andreas Tobler
2000-09-02 10:09 ` Timothy A. Seufert
2000-09-05 9:32 ` Timothy A. Seufert
2000-09-05 9:50 ` Timothy A. Seufert
2000-09-01 15:03 ` Tom Rini
2000-08-31 16:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-08-31 16:04 ` Gabriel Paubert
2000-08-31 16:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-09-01 14:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-09-01 14:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-09-01 16:31 ` Dan Malek
2000-07-31 23:22 ` CONFIG_PPC != Mac Dan Malek
2000-08-02 12:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-08-02 19:56 ` Dan Malek
2000-08-02 20:04 ` Ani Joshi
2000-08-02 21:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-08-02 21:42 ` future of drivers/macintosh (was Re: CONFIG_PPC != Mac) Joseph Garcia
2000-08-02 22:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-08-02 22:02 ` CONFIG_PPC != Mac Michael Schmitz
2000-08-03 1:22 ` Tom Gall
2000-08-03 9:33 ` Michael Schmitz
2000-08-03 11:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-07-29 17:36 ` Dan Malek
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