From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 8 15:26:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (orthanc.ab.ca [207.167.3.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD9F514D22 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 15:26:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca) Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (localhost.orthanc.ab.ca [127.0.0.1]) by orthanc.ab.ca (8.10.0.Beta6/8.10.0.Beta6) with ESMTP id e08NQTr94269; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 16:26:30 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200001082326.e08NQTr94269@orthanc.ab.ca> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reading kbd scancodes from userland In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Jan 2000 14:25:31 +0900." <200001080525.OAA13803@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 16:26:29 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Kazutaka" == Kazutaka YOKOTA writes: >> Failing that, has anyone figured out a keyboard mapping for an >> Inspiron 7000 that puts the left ALT key back where it belongs? >> (The reason for the first request is to try to determine what >> effect the left ALT key actually has. On this laptop, the >> "windows" key does what left ALT normally does, making life >> miserable when running a non-win98 external keyboard.) Kazutaka> This is pretty wiered. You mean the REAL left ALT key Kazutaka> doesn't work on this notebook and the external keyboard? The left ALT does *something*, I just don't know what (yet). To get the standard left ALT behaviour I have to use the "windows" key. Kazutaka> Can you veryfy that the same problem exists in other OS, Kazutaka> such as W*ndows, environments? If so, I suspect there Kazutaka> is a bug in the keyboard controller firmare, which Kazutaka> traslates keyboard signal into scan codes. Under Windows the left ALT and "windows" keys work as expected. --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message