Re: Input system and keycodes > 256

From: Vojtech Pavlik
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 18:41:59 EST


On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:48:50AM +0000, David Gómez wrote:
> Hi Benoit ;),
>
> > There are two kind of addons keys, some works (scancode in the e0 XX
> > form): Email, Prev, Next, Play/Pause, Vol+/-, Mute, ...
> > + some of thoses generate a simple keycode eg
> > Vol+: 0x73 | 0xf3 (scancodes: 0xe0 0x30 | 0xe0 0xb0)
> > + some doesn't eg:
> > play: 0x00 0x81 0xa4 | 0x80 0x81 0xa4 (scancodes: 0xe0 0x22 | 0xe0
> > 0xa2)
>
> You could make them work using the 'setkeycodes' command to configure
> the kernel tables, so you can put some setkeycodes lines in your init
> scripts to make those extra keys always avaliable on your console.

Won't work for USB keyboards.

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