Hi!
> > I have tested this on ten keyboards, five of them under Debian 2.1,
> > three under Suse 6.2 and two under a-kind-of-red-hat-5.1, and worked
> > OK under all of them. I hope to see this patch included in, at
> > least, a prepatch version of the kernel :))))
> >
> > Well, this patch is about these three new keys that some new
> > keyboards have: suspend, resume and poweroff. These keys don't work
> > on Linux by default, and I have decoded their scancodes and included
> > them in the kernel keyboard conversion tables.
>
> Very good!
>
> Unfortunately, these days there are many new keyboards, with dozens
> of new keys, so it is impossible to assign each key its own keycode
> (since for the time being keycodes are restricted to the range
> 1-127).
Andreas, these are special. If you go and buy new keyboard, it will
have those nasty keys. It is not like those "multimedia" keys which
differ from keyboard to keyboard -- this is more like L-window,
R-window and Menu "windows95" keys.
Pavel
-- The best software in life is free (not shareware)! Pavel GCM d? s-: !g p?:+ au- a--@ w+ v- C++@ UL+++ L++ N++ E++ W--- M- Y- R+- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Mar 31 2000 - 21:00:12 EST