peter wrote: > Greetings to all for the New Year, > > Paul Fox, pgf at laptop.org, Sat Dec 5 11:02:48 EST 2015, > > the "game controller" is simply 4 separate electrical contacts ... > > ... use 'xev' to check ... > > A "Hardware" section now in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Game_controller . > Corrections, criticisms and suggestions welcome.
the only mistake i see in your new section is that there are 4 buttons, not 5. > > Can anyone tell where the nomenclature "KP_Up" and etc. originated? > A mainframe console in the 1960s? i suspect the names came about when the PC/AT keyboard was introduced by IBM. i think that was the first PC keyboard to have a separate numeric keypad. (but that's just an informed guess.) paul =--------------------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
