From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 11 13:05:18 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA25338 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 13:05:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA25330 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 13:05:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA07237; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:07:16 -0700 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:07:16 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199512112107.OAA07237@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: Gert-Jan.Vons@ocegr.fr, questions@freebsd.org, hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: 2.1R+PCVT+Xfree on Thinkpad In-Reply-To: <199512112018.VAA13776@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <9512110915.AA03529@ocegr.fr> <199512112018.VAA13776@uriah.heep.sax.de> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > ( I don't know what is going on exactly when using PCVT, but the > > keyboard is dead when I start X. However, I can rlogin and use > > scons to switch to another screen where the keyboard works fine. > > Switching back to the X screen results in a keyboard that is no > > longer dead, but that apparently sends the wrong codes :-( > > Seems like your keyboard controller isn't willing to enable scan code > set I translation. I've heard this from somebody else running a > ThinkPad. Nope, it's not. :( > Scan code set I (aka. ``ancient PC scan codes'') is currently required > by XFree86. > > You could try playing with kbdio(8) (it's not built by default, but > you can find it in the pcvt sources under /usr/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/), to > further confirm or reject my theory. I'm *pretty* sure it's true, although it's a pain in the butt. However, both Linux and NetBSD can use X on ThinkPads, so I'm unsure why it doesn't work. Nate