Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:03:52 +0000 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net> To: Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> Cc: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB keyboard translation - Apple hardware Message-ID: <86wsr2rwbr.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net> In-Reply-To: <86mys0mkmr.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net> References: <20071224094642.GO1169@hoeg.nl> <86mys0mkmr.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net>
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At Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:50:52 +0000,
Rui Paulo wrote:
>
> At Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:46:42 +0100,
> Ed Schouten wrote:
> >
> > [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>]
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > One of the things that really made me mad when I got FreeBSD working on
> > my Apple MacBook, was that the Fn button on the keyboard doesn't work.
> > This means that I don't have the Delete, Page-{Up,Down}, Home and End
> > buttons.
> >
> > I took a look at kbdmap(1), but it turned out you can't add any new
> > modifiers, which is needed in this case, because we have a new Fn
> > modifier key. Maybe you could solve this in X, but I also work a lot
> > outside of X, so I really want to have the translation to be performed
> > everywhere.
> >
> > I've written the following patch for ukbd, which adds a method for
> > easily adding translation functions to the driver, to remap keys:
> >
> > http://g-rave.nl/unix/freebsd/freebsd-ukbd-translate.diff
> >
> > I tried to keep the code as clean as possible, so I also put some
> > #ifdef's around it, so that people who dislike it, can just undef it.
> > I've only added the quirks for the Apple MacBook keyboard, but there are
> > some other Apple keyboards that have some strange scancodes. I still
> > have to add those.
> >
> > Any comments so far?
>
> I do like this approach.
Oops, I mean "I don't like this approach"
Sorry.
--
Rui Paulo
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