Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 14:10:05 -0300 From: Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz> To: Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using META and DEL keys in console Message-ID: <20050306141005.57e017bb@ale.varnet.bsd> In-Reply-To: <20050303135450.H19517@goodwill.io.com> References: <20050301194338.3a49611d@ale.varnet.bsd> <20050301220822.F8622@goodwill.io.com> <20050303151945.07303710@ale.varnet.bsd> <20050303135450.H19517@goodwill.io.com>
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:40:25 -0600 (CST) Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Alejandro Pulver wrote: > > > Where is the (complete) list of scancodes and which keys produce > > them? > > > > If there is not, as I think, how can I know what scancode is > > produced by each key in my keyboard (a program, maybe)? > > As a practical matter, for the console keyboard I generally work > backwards from a known keymap (one of the distribution keymaps), > and cut and try. man 5 kbdmap lists all the values you can > assign to key combinations (note the "5" - otherwise you are > likely to get man 1 kbdmap by default). Notice that you can > use kbdmap or kbdcontrol to load a keymap to experiment with and > you do not have to reboot to see what happens. I find this > works very well with American PC keyboards where there are only > a handful of keys that are in doubt, even with fairly esoteric > models, like butterflies with two keypads. > > The distribution maps, after all, were not put together by crazy > people, so the unshifted values of most of the keys are pretty > logical. > [snipped] Your answer helped me much. Thanks and Best Regards, Ale
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