Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Date | Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:32:25 +0200 (MEST) | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test5 vs. APM or keyboard driver |
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From: "Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp>
... The above complaints all concern either APM or the keyboard driver. I am not sure if the 2.6.0 keyboard driver could be the reason why the BIOS no longer even gets signals from the keyboard. I have never seen any other situation where a keyboard's "Fn" key plus functional meaning of another key could get broken, so I'm not sure if a broken keyboard driver could really be this powerful.
Some versions of 2.6 combined with some keyboard versions will set the keyboard to scancode mode 3. Some (most? all?) BIOSes expect translated scancode mode 2 and do not work in any other mode.
So, in case you have scancode mode set 3, change that.
So far we have heard about precisely one keyboard in the world where scancode mode 3 was useful. It is the Japanese keyboard of John Bradford. He once wrote
> My keyboard has a distinct ID, and works fine in set 3,
Let me repeat the question: John: What ID does this keyboard report?
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