Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:29:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, chat@FreeBSD.org, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Subject: Re: PC Keyboard Scancodes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004171428070.53508-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20000417050105.A83612@mppsystems.com>
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Mike Pritchard wrote:
> As to someone asking about the keycodes, it looks like the
> "sleep" button generates the same code as the microsoft keyboard,
> so maybe that is somewhat "official". So at least for that one,
> we might want to see if Linux/the other *BSDs have definied anything
> for that and stick with it.
I'm far from an expert on this, but I do remember reading an
article recently (forgot where) that talked about "The PC
Industry" wanting to establish a standard for sleep, suspend and power
keys on the keyboard, ala macintosh. Sounds like this is a step in that
direction.
Doug
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