Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 08:18:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Syscons and IBM ThinkPads Message-ID: <199508180618.IAA13224@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9508180032.AA13976@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 17, 95 06:32:27 pm
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Since we're in a quoting mood: > > > > > > ''The PS/2 offers yet a third alternative. Scan code set 3 ... > > > > What do you wanna tell by this? > > You implied that it should be used; he implied that it was useless. 8-). Guess why he's implying that it's useless? He's looking from a DOS point of view, where he has to maintain compatibility to this ancient XT-scancode scenario. Scan set 3 is the most rationale one, since it's strictly generating just one scan code per key (+ the 0xf0 prefix when releasing the key). > > I think it is. All modern MF-II keyboards appear to support scan set > > 3. > > I think you could test for 3, then test for 1 then cope with 2. Well, currently it's only a compile-time option (in pcvt). I doubt i will have the time to revamp everything... perhaps, the keyboard code in pcvt cries for a rewrite. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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