Re: Keyboards on PowerPC....
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 23:44, The Doctor What wrote:
> 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?).
Don't think so. Search for information about Linux keycodes, e.g in this
list's archive.
> Furthermore, with Ben H's kernel, the up arrow doesn't work, the
> PgDn (fn+down arrow) doesn't work (no keycodes being generated).
Do you have Magic Sysrq enabled?
> The debian keymaps just *totally* bork everything.
You need to learn about the difference between ADB and Linux keycodes,
and use the right keymap.
> Is there anything I can do get make this actually work? Or is the
> console under PowerPC just a joke?
But of course, we're all living with a joke...
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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