kbd/patches/kbd-1.15-keycodes-man.patch

   1 diff -up kbd-1.15/man/man1/showkey.1_old kbd-1.15/man/man1/showkey.1
   2 --- kbd-1.15/man/man1/showkey.1_old     2008-03-13 17:46:23.000000000 +0100
   3 +++ kbd-1.15/man/man1/showkey.1 2008-12-10 12:31:38.000000000 +0100
   4 @@ -80,6 +80,19 @@ corresponds to what the keyboard hardwar
   5  to know the scan codes sent by various keys it is better to boot a
   6  2.4 kernel. Since 2.6.9 there also is the boot option atkbd.softraw=0
   7  that tells the 2.6 kernel to return the actual scan codes.
   8 +
   9 +.SH NOTES
  10 +The raw scan codes are available only on AT and PS/2 keyboards,
  11 +and even then they are disabled unless the
  12 +.B atkbd.softraw=0
  13 +kernel parameter is used.
  14 +When the raw scan codes are not available, the kernel uses a fixed built-in
  15 +table to produce scan codes from keycodes.  Thus,
  16 +.BR setkeycodes (8)
  17 +can affect the output of
  18 +.B showkey
  19 +in scan code dump mode.
  20 +
  21  .SH "SEE ALSO"
  22  .BR loadkeys (1),
  23  .BR dumpkeys (1),
  24 diff -up kbd-1.15/man/man8/setkeycodes.8_old kbd-1.15/man/man8/setkeycodes.8
  25 --- kbd-1.15/man/man8/setkeycodes.8_old 2008-12-10 12:31:56.000000000 +0100
  26 +++ kbd-1.15/man/man8/setkeycodes.8     2008-12-10 12:37:36.000000000 +0100
  27 @@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ to showkey(1), the command
  28  will assign the keycode 112 to it, and then loadkeys(1) can be used
  29  to define the function of this key.
  30
  31 +USB keyboards have standardized keycodes and
  32 +.B setkeycodes
  33 +doesn't affect them at all.
  34 +
  35  .SH "2.6 KERNELS"
  36  In 2.6 kernels key codes lie in the range 1-255, instead of 1-127.
  37  (It might be best to confine oneself to the range 1-239.)
  38 @@ -54,6 +58,14 @@ None.
  39  .SH BUGS
  40  The keycodes of X have nothing to do with those of Linux.
  41  Unusual keys can be made visible under Linux, but not under X.
  42 +
  43 +.B setkeycodes
  44 +affects only the "first" input device
  45 +that has modifiable scancode-to-keycode mapping.
  46 +If there is more than one such device,
  47 +.B setkeycodes
  48 +cannot change the mapping of other devices than the "first" one.
  49 +
  50  .SH "SEE ALSO"
  51  .I "dumpkeys (1), loadkeys (1), showkey (1), getkeycodes (8)"
  52