Re: 2.6.0-test1/2: keyboard funnies in textmode

[Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:25:45PM +0200, Jurgen Kramer wrote:

> With both 2.6.0-test1 and test2 I am unable to use
> de pipe (|) key in textmode (??). When in X it works again.
> I have tested this on 2 machines. One machine is a laptop with Japanese
> keyboard the other a regular PC with wireless Logitech USB keyboard.
> 
> All the other keys seem to work properly...anyone else with this strange
> problem?

Can you give some details?

- When did it last work?
- What does it mean: "am unable to use"?
(Is the key ignored? Does the system crash? Do you get different keycodes?)
- What are the boot messages about the keyboard?

The pipe key is the same as the backslash key (say, on a US keyboard).
And there is some interesting confusion between Yen and Backslash
(since ASCII and JIS-Roman coincide, except in the yen and overbar
positions, where ASCII has backslash and tilde).
So, I am not surprised by weird things on a Japanese keyboard.

Do you use scancode Set 3?

Andries