Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: Map extra keys on compaq evo | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2004 23:18:45 -0500 |
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On Monday 01 November 2004 12:28 pm, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > With accurate list "hotkeys" could run with no configuration, but I am > > > afraid maintaining accurate list of keys for each keyboard is way too > > > much work. > > > > The lists need to be kept _somewhere_, so why not have a userspace > > database with a program that loads the description into the kernel at > > boot, possibly using DMI as a hint to what keyboard is connected? > > Doing dmi blacklist from userspace is going to be pretty > painfull... Kernel already has all the infrastructure. > > My preference is forget about providing list of keys (it never worked > anyway), and just fixup few notebooks we know...
What about all those "multimedia" and "Internet" keyboards out there?
Plus I don't think using DMI is a good idea. Many people use 2 keyboards with their laptops - built-in and external and DMI mapping will sure be wrong for external keyboard. Theoretically it should be possible to have several completely independent keyboards (at least as far as keycodes go).
I actually would love to set up X to have 2 keyboards with 2 different layouts, I wonder if event keyboard driver can help here... And we'd have to adjust setkeycodes too...
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