On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:40:25 -0600 (CST) Lars Eighner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Alejandro Pulver wrote: > > > Where is the (complete) list of scancodes and which keys produce > > them? > > > > If there is not, as I think, how can I know what scancode is > > produced by each key in my keyboard (a program, maybe)? > > As a practical matter, for the console keyboard I generally work > backwards from a known keymap (one of the distribution keymaps), > and cut and try. man 5 kbdmap lists all the values you can > assign to key combinations (note the "5" - otherwise you are > likely to get man 1 kbdmap by default). Notice that you can > use kbdmap or kbdcontrol to load a keymap to experiment with and > you do not have to reboot to see what happens. I find this > works very well with American PC keyboards where there are only > a handful of keys that are in doubt, even with fairly esoteric > models, like butterflies with two keypads. > > The distribution maps, after all, were not put together by crazy > people, so the unshifted values of most of the keys are pretty > logical. > [snipped] Your answer helped me much. Thanks and Best Regards, Ale _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
