Re: Powerpc (mac-G4) -essentially (less) broken

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 10:37, Nick Bailey wrote:

> I set linux keycodes in yaboot.conf, and seem to have got them... but
> 
> cmtdb121:~> cat /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes
> cat: /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes: No such file 
> or directory

Your kernel lacks support for ADB keycodes, which is good. It always
uses Linux keycodes.


> >    MODEL=macintosh
> >    # good old-fashioned BRAIN DAMAGE
> >    if [ -e /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes ]; then
> >      if [ "$(cat /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes)" = "0" ]; then
> >        MODEL=macintosh_old
> >      fi
> >    fi

This code handles that perfectly.


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