Re: Lost keypresses [was Re: GGI and cli/sti in X]

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Wed, 1 Apr 1998 17:10:28 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > So my questions are:
> >
> > 1. Will it work if I change the keyboard mode from VC_RAW to VC_MEDIUMRAW?
> > AFAIK the only difference is that VC_MEDIUMRAW sends single keycodes,
> > while VC_RAW sends scancodes, which may be prefixed. I haven't tried it
> > yet, though.
>
> Yes.

Fine! I'll try that.

> > much easier if each key would generate a unique single keycode.
> > (preferably even 16 bit, since 8 bit (7 bit plus up/down bit) is too
> > limited for some keyboards)
>
> Do you have keyboard > 128 characters? I do *NOT* want yet another
> keyboard mode.

A friend of mine has such a keyboard for a Sun SPARC.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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