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Date:      Thu, 5 Jun 2003 00:45:03 +0200 (CEST)
From:      ferrex@impaled.org
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multimedia Keyboard (extra keys) on console
Message-ID:  <38923.217.231.208.201.1054766703.squirrel@webmail.impaled.org>
In-Reply-To: <000801c32ae6$e1c8be20$0700010a@workstation>
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umm the russian stuff doesnt help me much, and i cant figure out how to
compile it either ;)

> It depends on what the linux utility delivers.
> RAW scancodes or XLATE scancodes. What you need is the translated scancode
> and
> you need a press codes not the release ones.
> There is qualified article about FreeBSD syscons in the net but it is in
> russian. The author provides also
> some utilities for playing alittle bit  with syscons driver.
> see http://www.tsu.ru/~pascal/unix/syscons/scancode.c
> the utility which can show scancodes RAW ones as well as intern ones.
> There are a pair of other utilities on the same site, but the text is only
> in russian :-)
> --
> Vahe
> ---
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ferrex@impaled.org>
> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 11:42 PM
> Subject: Multimedia Keyboard (extra keys) on console
>
>
>> i want to map some of the 12 "multimedia keys" i have on my keyboard to
>> whatever
>> on the console, not in X, like making one of them execute "ssh <host>"
>> or
>> something
>>
>> i tried to find out the scancodes on freebsd, but failed terribly, there
>> is no
>> utility available to find them it seems, so i plugged it into a linux
> machine
>> and got the scancode for one of the keys via "showkey -s", in hex its
>> 0x90
>> in dec its 144.
>> then i dumped my keyboard map via "kbdcontrol -d >keys", added a line at
> the
>> bottom for the scancode 144, and reloaded it via "kbdcontrol -l keys"..
>>
>> 144 'A' nul nul nul nul nul nul nul O
>>
>> it didnt do anything tho, anyone got any hints whats going wrong?
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