Can someone explain why the keyboards are so foo-bar'ed in linux PowerPC? I mean, even with the out of box 2.2.19 debian kernel, some keys are dead (Caps Lock) to the kernel. With Ben H's patches (from Debian or otherwise), the keyboard is *totaled*. All the keycodes are renumbered. A is 0, which doesn't show up in dumpkeys (is that a bug?). Furthermore, with Ben H's kernel, the up arrow doesn't work, the PgDn (fn+down arrow) doesn't work (no keycodes being generated). The debian keymaps just *totally* bork everything. I've yet to get the 3 button emulation stuff to work under the console. Though I got GPM to work. I've been playing with William R Sowerbutts' patch to make caps lock return a key code (so I can map the cursed thing to control), but between everything else, my life isn't getting easier. I haven't tried to start X yet, I'm frightened as to what might go wrong. (I have an iBook (blueberry, single USB, 300Mhz).) Is there anything I can do get make this actually work? Or is the console under PowerPC just a joke? Ciao. -- I'm at two with nature. -- Woody Allen The Doctor What: "What, Doctor What" http://docwhat.gerf.org/ docwhat@gerf.org KF6VNC
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