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From: laverman@cs.rug.nl (Bert Laverman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re:  What happened to my Keyboard?
Message-ID: <41631@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 09:56:10 GMT
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Michael Joswig writes:
>  I copied "keyboard.ge.h" to
> "keyboard.h" because I do have a german layout.
I hope you also patched Makefile... It knows about these different layouts.

>                                                 When I made the Kernel and
> rebooted, I didn't had access to the keypad (is it keypad? those Numbers on
> the right side of mey Keyboard...). All I got were useless signs but no
> numbers at all.
This ain't a bug; it's a feature ;-) Your keyboard is now a vt100 keyboard,
which means that your keypad generates DEC VT-100 compatible codes. The Function
keys now generate VT-200 compatible codes. Look at kernel/stkbd.c for what
exactly it is they generate.

If you want to recover the original coding - as was used in Minix ST 1.1 -
you must set a #define in /usr/include/minix/config.h from VT100 to IBMPC
or something like that. I kept vt100 style coding. At least it conforms to
some kind of standard...


Greetings,
Bert Laverman.

    Disclaimer: Don't blame my Boss,
		He doesn't know what I'm saying either.
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