Re: switching to linux keycodes in woody
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > > I am all for this - APUS not having Linux keycodes yet is not an issue, it
> > > > will keep Amiga keycodes, right?
> > >
> > > I don't know. Should APUS start using Linux keycodes too?
> > >
> > > I hope it's not the same as using PC/AT keycodes for everything, since we tried
> > > that on m68k ages ago and it didn't work out at all, so we reverted and sent
> > > the PC/AT keycodes with an old Sojuz into the Sun :-)
> >
> > It sure sounds like the old PC/AT keycodes game to me, the way people keep
> > refering to it as 'i386 keycodes'... Are you sure that Sojuz wasn't
> > destined to MIR?
> >
> > As I recall the problem was with Amiga keyboards, right? What exactly
> > didn't work?
>
> IIRC, the main problem was that Amiga keyboards have some keys that do not
> exist on PC keyboards.
>
> Of course these days you can just map the good old Amiga keys to Windows keys
> :-)
>
> But I have to check my mail archive to be 100% sure...
For those who want to read the (long) discussion we had in June 1996:
http://home.tvd.be/cr26864/Linux/m68k/keycodes.mail.gz
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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