From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 17 14:30: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F82E37BBEB; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA53530; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:29:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Mike Pritchard Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Kris Kennaway , chat@FreeBSD.org, "Daniel O'Connor" , Anatoly Vorobey , Warner Losh Subject: Re: PC Keyboard Scancodes In-Reply-To: <20000417050105.A83612@mppsystems.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. -- W. Somerset Maugham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message