On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 03:44:36AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > 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? Er, the answer is quite simple really. I could find nothing to map them /TO/ on the X side of things. This could simply be my missing something, but I really could find no keycodes to map those to. Nor someplace to throw unknown codes on mass. Does anyone have some bright ideas on how to handle them? -- 1024D/E65A7801 Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@babylon.d2dc.net> 92ED 94E4 B1E6 3624 226D 5727 4453 008B E65A 7801 CCs of replies from mailing lists are requested. The story includes this array of huge rhymes-with-hell machines, all running screensavers, the power and SAN cables neatly run between them... and the disused tape-storage closet stuffed with old Sun boxen still humming quietly away. - adb in ASR on rumours of a flawless SunOS to NT site cutover.
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