Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272156AbTGYPhZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:37:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272158AbTGYPhZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:37:25 -0400 Received: from 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk ([81.2.122.30]:27010 "EHLO 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272156AbTGYPga (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:36:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:01:40 +0100 From: John Bradford Message-Id: <200307251601.h6PG1etD001373@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> To: aebr@win.tue.nl, ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp Subject: Re: Japanese keyboards broken in 2.6 Cc: cs@tequila.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1332 Lines: 29 > > > setkeycodes 0x6a 124 1>&2 in your rc.local, local.start or whatever. > > > works fine for me for alle 2.5x kernels > > > > There must be a ton of odd stuff going on. "showkey" used to say that the > > scan code is 0x7d not 0x6a, but now it displays weird stuff. As previously > > mentioned, "getkeycodes" displays a table which seems far removed from > > reality. But the patch from junkio@cox.net worked (but "showkey" and > > "getkeycodes" still produce weird output). > > Yes. > > I am a little bit unhappy with the state of the kbd code > (but have not yet decided whether I want to attempt to fix something). > > One aspect of the matter is that raw mode no longer is raw. > The keyboard sends codes and the input layer translates that into > the codes the input layer thinks the keyboard should have sent. > Then, when one wants the raw codes, a reverse translation is used, > but since the mapping is not one-to-one the reverse translation > does not produce what the keyboard sent to start with. Doesn't AT-set3 usually have a closer one to one mapping of keys? John. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/