From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 17 16:49:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA12184 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 16:49:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA12157 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 16:49:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.1/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id IAA05900 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 08:10:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tPX9c-000I5YC; Tue, 12 Dec 95 17:02 MET Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tPWGY-00001rC; Tue, 12 Dec 95 16:05 MET Message-Id: From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: 2.1R+PCVT+Xfree on Thinkpad To: Gert-Jan.Vons@ocegr.fr Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 16:05:13 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, nate@rocky.sri.mt.net, questions@freebsd.org, hm@altona.hamburg.com In-Reply-To: <9512120925.AA22615@ocegr.fr> from "Gert-Jan.Vons@ocegr.fr" at Dec 12, 95 10:25:52 am Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >From the keyboard of Gert-Jan.Vons@ocegr.fr: > As van Gilluwe states, not all controllers/keyboards accept both > methods, but he describes a way to find out which method the > controller/keyboard supports. It boils down to "just do it and see > if it sticks", i.e. set the bit and read it afterward to see whether > the controller accepts it. (PCVT could do that, too... (hint :) When you first described your problem, i read the keyboard section of the van Gilluwe book book again (the Xth time) - and noticed it is time for a complete rewrite of the pcvt keyboard section. I i only had the time .... hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?