Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 22:58:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "David H. Brierley" <dave@galaxia.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Question about using an alternative keyboard Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980411223003.576C-100000@trantor.galaxia.com>
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I am attempting to use the keyboard from an NCD X terminal on my
PC running FreeBSD-2.2.5 and XFree86. My first question is, has
anybody ever done this before and can you tell me what you did to
make it work? If you have never attempted this particular keyboard
but perhaps have done this with some other non-standard keyboard
that information would also be helpful because it would certainly
point me in the right direction.
What I have done so far is to attempt to determine what the keyboard
scancode values are for the NCD keyboard and to build a keymap file
for use with the syscons keyboard driver. This part seems to be
progressing quite nicely although there are still a few keys on
the keyboard that I can't seem to access correctly. In particular,
the F5 key and the "4" key seem to produce the same scancode! If
I attempt to move beyond that and start up X/11, things seem to
get really strange. I think I need to modify (or create new) files
in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb but I'm not sure exactly which files to
modify and I can't seem to find any really clear documentation on
the contents of the files or how they are used.
Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. I would
really like to use this keyboard because the layout is almost
identical to the Sun type-5 keyboard that I use at work all day
and this way my daytime keyboard and my evening keyboard would have
the same layout. However, I want to make sure it is going to work
correctly before I spend the money to buy it.
--
David H. Brierley
dave@galaxia.com
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