Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:15:41 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Florian Festi <florian@festi.info>, vojtech@suse.cz
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Meaning of keycodes unclear
Message-ID: <20061205111541.GB6987@elf.ucw.cz>
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On Tue 2006-12-05 10:28:17, Florian Festi wrote:
> I am looking for the meaning of the following key codes as #defined in 
> include/linux/input.h. I need to know what hardware produces the keycode 
> and what happens/should happen when the corresponding key is pressed.
> 
> KEY_AB
> KEY_ANGLE
> KEY_ARCHIVE
> KEY_CONNECT
> KEY_DIGITS

> KEY_MACRO

Macro key was present on some old keyboards. It allowed macro definitions.

> KEY_ISO
> KEY_LIST
> KEY_POWER2
> KEY_QUESTION

> KEY_TEEN      # 1- ???
> KEY_TWEN      # 2- ???

Yep. Very common on remote controls.

> KEY_RED, KEY_GREEN, KEY_YELLOW, KEY_BLUE  # Video text navigation?

Yes.

> I am currently trying to make all special keys just work by fixing the 
> whole keyboard/input stack from the kernel up to the desktop 
> environments. On part of this effort is to complete the mappings applied 
> to the keys during their way up.

									Pavel

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