Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:49:02AM -0700, Al Chu: > Hi John, > > I suppose this wouldn't be impossible to add, I'd have to figure out > what characters each F1-F12 equate to (maybe you know, but I don't, just > need to research). It wouldn't be too far removed from the &D escape I > already have (some keyboard's apparently send something else other than > the delete character when you hit 'del').
maybe the pty/tty/X; eg: on freebsd/netbsd, keys can be mapped to other keycodes within the keyboard drivers (wskbd). I'm not sure what the codes/escape strings are; I had them stored somewhere, but cant find them now. This looks promising: http://aperiodic.net/phil/archives/Geekery/term-function-keys.html > Al > > On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 14:18 -0700, john heasley wrote: > > Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 01:20:55PM -0700, Al Chu: > > > Hey John, > > > > > > Thanks for the input. Everything should be fixed in beta3. I'll try to > > > release it today or tomorrow. > > > > Hi. A feature suggestion; I personally hate PCs or more precisely BIOS, > > biggest PoS I've ever encountered. From the Unix and X11 side, it'd be > > really sweet to be able send the myriad of PC function keys from a non-PC > > keyboard via SOL to be able to control BIOS set-up and the BIOS > > set-up/maintenance features of various raid cards etc. > > > > The PC Weasel board was cool in this regard; hit the escape sequence (ctrl > > shift 6), then k or something like that, then F 1 or F 1 2, or E S C, or > > C T R L - S H I F T - 1, etc and it translated that to whatever the sequence > > is for those keys. Sadly, the Weasel isnt made anymore, but it didnt have > > all the capabilities of IPMI anyway. > -- > Albert Chu > [email protected] > Computer Scientist > High Performance Systems Division > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
