On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:55:58PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > CC'ing Zephaniah E. Hull, who seems to be the person who contributed the > patch in question. [...] > I hope I'm asking this question in the right place, since the evdev > support patch seems to be Debian specific. I was trying to get my > keyboard (Sun Type 6 USB) to work with the evdev driver, and I found a > whole lot of keys reporting scancode 7, even more than in "regular" > operation, without the evdev stuff. Then I read these lines in the > patch: [...] > ... which could explain that. Is there a specific reason why these > codes are mapped to KEY_UNKNOWN? I mean, if Linux recognizes them > (which I'm not sure about -- is there a way to verify that besides > hexdumping /dev/input/event*?), it would be cool to pass them on to the > user. I'm going to have to defer to Zeph on this one. Zeph, can you shed some light on this, please? -- G. Branden Robinson | Why should I allow that same God Debian GNU/Linux | to tell me how to raise my kids, branden@debian.org | who had to drown His own? http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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