Re: powerbook keymap

["Chris Tillman" <tillman@voicetrak.com>]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:42:16PM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 21:39, Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 13:48, B.C.J.O wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'm up to my neck in configuration issues here. =) I grabbed benh's
> > > patched ppc source tree and compiled a set of kernel packages which
> > > support the sound hardware in my powerbook, but I've obviously overlooked
> > > a signifigant detail somewhere. When I load the resulting kernel, the
> > > keymap is all funky and I can't navigate past the network selection
> > > dialogue during the boot process.
> > 
> > http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes
> > 
> > (Chris: that page doesn't mention that the best fix for this is
> > recompiling the kernel with CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES=n; could you add
> > that?)
> 
> And shouldn't "root" typed with ADB keycodes and a Linux keymap read
> "swwj" ? I would expect hitting the same key twice with the ADB keycodes
> to print the same thing twice to the screen ;)

:-) The difference between theory and practice.

Actually, r types an invisible character, the s's are the o's, return
types a j. Funky, huh?

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