Re: DECstation keyboard mappings and XFree

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> The keyboard mid-layer assumes keycodes are in the range 1-127 (with some 
> minor
> hack 0 can be made to work, cfr. Amiga keboards). Bit 7 is used to
> differentiate between up and down events. This means you cannot get keyboards
> with more than 128 keys to work (e.g. some specialized keyboards for old
> workstations).

 But the raw scancode should be passed as is.  A brief look at
drivers/char/keyboard.c suggests it's doable without breaking anything. 

 Keycodes seem to be limited to 1 - 127, but it's not a problem -- LK
keyboards do not have that many keys.

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