Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 16:26:29 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reading kbd scancodes from userland Message-ID: <200001082326.e08NQTr94269@orthanc.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Jan 2000 14:25:31 %2B0900." <200001080525.OAA13803@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>>>>> "Kazutaka" == Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> 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
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