From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 14:43:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B5EF37B401 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 14:43:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from verge.impaled.org (impaled.org [217.172.179.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C011543FAF for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 14:43:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ferrex@impaled.org) Received: from webmail.impaled.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by verge.impaled.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A30222AC211 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 23:42:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 217.231.208.201 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ferrex@impaled.org) by webmail.impaled.org with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 23:42:53 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <38776.217.231.208.201.1054762973.squirrel@webmail.impaled.org> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 23:42:53 +0200 (CEST) From: ferrex@impaled.org To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Multimedia Keyboard (extra keys) on console X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 21:43:56 -0000 i want to map some of the 12 "multimedia keys" i have on my keyboard to whatever on the console, not in X, like making one of them execute "ssh " or something i tried to find out the scancodes on freebsd, but failed terribly, there is no utility available to find them it seems, so i plugged it into a linux machine and got the scancode for one of the keys via "showkey -s", in hex its 0x90 in dec its 144. then i dumped my keyboard map via "kbdcontrol -d >keys", added a line at the bottom for the scancode 144, and reloaded it via "kbdcontrol -l keys".. 144 'A' nul nul nul nul nul nul nul O it didnt do anything tho, anyone got any hints whats going wrong?