As far as I can remember 'this bug' happens only in 'showkey' of the package of console-tools. So I replaced temporarly the package 'console-tools' with the package 'kbd'.
'showkey -k' of the 'kbd' worked as I expected (manpage). kind regards, Roland >On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:53:25AM +0200, Roland Wegmann wrote: >> Hello all >> >> I try to find out the keycode of each key of my Powerbook (1.25Mhz >> version) console keyboard. To do this I use normally 'showkey -k'. >> >> At the moment I have installed Debian Sarge via d-i with a 2.6.7 kernel. >> Using the command 'showkey -k' of this installation doesn't show keycodes >> but scancodes. In short, the options -k and -s of showkey show both >scancodes. > >Same here. > >> >> Is there a bug in the sarge version of showkeys? > >An `strace -e ioctl showkey <option>' shows that the proper ioctl >is performed and depends on the scancode/keycode option. Now to >find the bug in the mess that is drivers/char/keyboard.c and possibly >the input layer, it's another story. > >Could you try a 2.4 kernel. > > Regards, > Gabriel Thanks in advance for helping me Roland Wegmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
