Re: bad scancode for USB keyboard

[Fredrik Olausson]

I have found a solution to the problem.
XFree86 has 2 keyboard drivers, the default one named "keyboard" and an 
alternative one named "kbd" which according to documentation on the 
XFree86 website is a new keyboard driver mostly written from scratch. 
With the kbd-driver the print-screen key and the |\-key got different 
keycodes and thus I could make the |\-key give me the proper characters.

So, to summarize. Simply changing the line:
Driver      "keyboard"
to
Driver      "kbd"
in the input-device section in the XF86Config file and fiddling a bit 
with xmodmap solved the problem for me.

Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:27:42AM +0100, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> >
> > > > I have the same problem with a Logitech cordless desktop.
> > > > I can easily change the keycode to generate the right characters 
> > > > when in console-mode, but XFree gives that key and the Print Screen 
> > > > key the same keycode.
> > > > After changing the xmodmap I can get the unmodified character, but 
> > > > modifiers doesn't work, it just gives me the same character not 
> > > > matter what modifier I use (shift, alt, alt_gr etc.)
> > >
> > >
> > > I had fixed my console keymap too, but I've not been able to
> > > figure out how to change the X keymap.  I've been looking in
> > > the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/ directory, but perhaps XKB is not
> > > being used for old-style keyboard mapping?
> > >
> > > Could you provide detailed instructions?  C coding with missing
> > > backslash and bar keys is quite hard :-)
> > >
> > > Of course, I still thing its' a 2.6 kernel bug and it should be
> > > fixed.  Vojtech, do you have an idea why it's happening?
> >
> >
> > The reason is that this key is not the ordinary backslash-bar key, it's
> > the so-called 103rd key on some european keyboards. It generates a
> > different scancode.
>
>
> Yes, I've found out it's 84 for the key besides/below the enter key.
>
> > 2.4 used the same keycode for both the scancodes, 2.6 does not, so that
> > it's possible to differentiate between the keys on keyboards that have
> > both this one and also the standard backslash-bar.
>
>
> I see...  So it appears the fix has to be done in the kbd package and in
> XFree86.
>
> The default console keymap should be changed like this:
>
> < keycode  84 = Last_Console
>  > keycode  84 = backslash        bar
>
> Andries Brouwer appears to be the current maintainer of kbd, so I've
> pulled him into our thread.  This is also being cross-postied to
> the devel@xxxxxxxxxxx list.
>
> In addition, I'm going to open two PRs for these packages in RedHat's
> bugzilla to make sure the issue gets properly fixed before it hits the
> masses.
>
> fyi, this thread was started here:
>
>  http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0401.0/0485.html

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