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Driver for keyboard supports PS/2 & Webpal & works on 665GT chip

New MessageDriver for keyboard supports PS/2 & Webpal & works on 665GT chip (modified 0 times) Vit_sfba
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Available at http://www.luban.org/Webpal
Enjoy.

Vit.

12-02-2002 07:02:44

New MessageRE:Driver for keyboard supports PS/2 & Webpal & works on 665GT chip (modified 0 times) scratchy
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Nice job on integrating the two keyboard drivers. I've been using the new driver for the past few days, and it's working fine.

However, I'm having a keyboard mapping problem in X. When I start X (on Debian Potato), both keyboards work, but the keycodes are not being mapped to the correct keysyms. (This problem, BTW, has nothing to do with the new driver. It exists with the two original drivers as well)

So, I created a custom Xmodmap file that explicitly specifies every keycode-to-keysym mapping. Using this file, both of my keyboards work in X (with the small exception that a couple of keys like "scroll up" and "scroll down" are not working yet on the IR keyboard). The file is available on my webpage:

http://www.anycities.com/user/webpal

But, I'm also wondering if anyone else is having this keyboard problem in X, or if there is a simpler way to configure the keyboard mapping that I'm overlooking?

12-05-2002 14:52:17

New MessageRE:Driver for keyboard supports PS/2 & Webpal & works on 665GT chip (modified 0 times) Vit_sfba
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Yes, I see.

Also, F-keys in non X mode seem not to
work. I'll look into that, maybe even this weekend.

Vit.

12-06-2002 04:12:09

New MessageRE:Driver for keyboard supports PS/2 & Webpal & works on 665GT chip (modified 0 times) uCme
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Scratchy, do you have a writeup/summary of how you installed Debian on your Webpal? I've never used Debian and the HOWTOs that I have found make a lot of assumptions about having CDROM drives and such. :)

This is to say, I'd like to try these changes ot the driver, but... :)

12-06-2002 09:28:07

New MessageRE:Driver for keyboard supports PS/2 & Webpal & works on 665GT chip (modified 0 times) scratchy
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uCme, I'll look into putting a summary together.
12-06-2002 12:17:29

New MessageRE:Driver for keyboard supports PS/2 & Webpal & works on 665GT chip (modified 0 times) uCme
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Thanks. It's the only thing keeping me from being 'done' with the 'get it working' phase of this project. :) I have one hacked up and running and 3 waiting for it to become 'production'. :) They might end up being X-mas gifts. :)
12-06-2002 13:25:41

New MessageRE:Driver for keyboard supports PS/2 & Webpal & works on 665GT chip (modified 0 times) Vit_sfba
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Hi all,

F-keys are fixed. Now they are:
Favs - F8,
Home - F9,
Search - F10,
Mail - F11,
Find - F12,
Edit - Insert,
Back - Del,
Scroll Up - PgUp,
Scroll Down - PgDown.

Only wireless keyboard is fixed, I do not use
PS/2 with Webpal anymore. But if anyone need PS/2 fix, I can do that too.

Available for download from http://www.luban.org/Webpal
patch against 2.4.18-rmk-4,
kernel binary+modules.

I'm open to suggestions for other unassigned keys usage, as well, as bug reports.

Vit.

12-29-2002 06:07:59

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