Re: keyboard problem with 2.6.6

[Andries Brouwer]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:46:20PM +0200, Chris Osicki wrote:

>>> I tried to solve my problem using setkeycodes and tried:
>>> 
>>> setkeycodes 71 101
>>> 
>>> getkeycodes reported after that:
>>> 
>>> # getkeycodes | grep 0x70
>>>  0x70:   93 101   0  89   0   0  85  91

Yes, fine.

>>> But showkeys -s shows 0x5b when the key in question is pressed
>>> (and no release event!!??)

0x5b is 91 which is x86_keycodes[101].

Yes, so all is clear:
The 2.6 kernel no longer has a raw mode - it has a simulated raw mode
that is not very raw. When you updated the table used for the
scancode->keycode translation, the table used to reconstruct what
might have been the original scancode was not changed accordingly.
Thus, showkeys -s gave a garbage answer.

Thanks for the report. It shows that resurrecting raw mode is even
more desirable than I thought at first.

Andries
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