* Cory Maccarrone <[email protected]> [091115 14:49]: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Felipe Balbi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 12:06 -0800, Cory Maccarrone wrote: > >> All, > >> > >> I'm working with the Wing Linux and Linwizard projects in porting > >> various omap850-based devices to Linux, and was wondering about > >> keymaps. > >> > >> In particular, I'm working with the HTC Herald, which uses an Alt key > >> to access things like numbers and symbols on a physical keyboard. In > >> Linux, the keymappings are wrong for this -- Alt does something > >> different and doesn't allow access to those extra characters. > >> > >> In Linwizard, we've modified the defkeymap and added makefile rules to > >> compile our modified defkeymap when a specific board was selected, but > >> this isn't portable when building a kernel for many boards at once, > >> each having a different mapping. > >> > >> So, my question is, what is the best way to go about changing the > >> defkeymap, or supplying a keymap that allows all the keys to function > >> correctly, but doesn't require non-portable makefile hacks? > > > > how about letting xmodmap handle that ? If you use alt key, then kernel > > passes alt key. Userland can later remap that key to some other > > function. > > > > -- > > balbi > > > > > > > > For X-based interfaces that would work, and there's an equivalent for > Android too. My question is more geared towards the console (i.e. no > X or Android, just plain linux console).
Maybe post the patch for reference to linux-input list? Please Cc this list too, it will be interesting to see what Dmitry suggests. IMHO, we should find a way to support various keyboards with platform_data specified keymaps in order to use the shell with standard distros. Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
