From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 17 23:21:21 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA03422 for current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 23:21:21 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA03408 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 23:21:10 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA13647; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 08:20:56 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA10180 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 08:20:56 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA13224 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 08:18:22 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508180618.IAA13224@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Syscons and IBM ThinkPads To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 08:18:21 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9508180032.AA13976@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 17, 95 06:32:27 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1028 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Since we're in a quoting mood: > > > > > > ''The PS/2 offers yet a third alternative. Scan code set 3 ... > > > > What do you wanna tell by this? > > You implied that it should be used; he implied that it was useless. 8-). Guess why he's implying that it's useless? He's looking from a DOS point of view, where he has to maintain compatibility to this ancient XT-scancode scenario. Scan set 3 is the most rationale one, since it's strictly generating just one scan code per key (+ the 0xf0 prefix when releasing the key). > > I think it is. All modern MF-II keyboards appear to support scan set > > 3. > > I think you could test for 3, then test for 1 then cope with 2. Well, currently it's only a compile-time option (in pcvt). I doubt i will have the time to revamp everything... perhaps, the keyboard code in pcvt cries for a rewrite. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)