On 20.11 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt outgrape: On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 23:42 +0000, Jochen Voss wrote: > > Hello Benjamin, > > > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:23:53AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On the other hand, "Fn" is handled in hardware for ADB keyboards and by > > > the kernel (simulating hardware) afaik, in OS X, and I suspect it might > > > be a good idea to do the same, that is, have a translation map of the HW > > > keycodes when Fn is pressed in the kernel driver. > > > Why would this be a good idea? > > > > Disadvantage: Not passing fn-key presses to the X-server would prevent > > users from having their own mappings for fn-something combinations. > > 1) you could still pass it down > > 2) While the ability to customize mappings in weird ways is cool for > 0.1% of users who are "l33t", it's imho totally useless if the remaining > 99.9% of users end up by default with a non-working map
I wonder if my problems remapping the Caps Lock key have something to do with this issue. I've remapped keycode 58 to Control_L for the console, but this has little effect. Caps Lock is nullified, but the key doesn't function as Control_L. Nevertheless, showkey and evdebug show key 58 getting pressed and released. It's a similar story for xorg & mol. Various tools tell me Key 58 is getting pressed, but Linux can't seem to do what it should with those keypresses. Other key remappings work fine, and the OS X remapping also works. This is on the Powerbook 6,8 1.5GHz G4 12" with Canadian French ADB keyboard. -- Guy Yasko -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
