On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote:
>
> There is a quite large variety of keyboards these days; putting stuff
> in the kernel is meaningless. You'll have to use the setkeycodes
> utility to assign keycodes to these 14 keys. See also
> http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/kbd-14.html
> Usually keycodes 89-95 and 112-118 and 120-127 are free to be assigned.
>
The problem: some keyboards have MORE than 14 extra keys - for example, HP OEM
keyboards on Pavilion series have 22!
Which is why I made a driver (2.2.x only for now) which allows one to exploit
them all with the help of a user space daemon. Submitted to Jeff Garzik for
proofreading, I'll submit it to lkml when he's done with it. I don't expect it
to be integrated though, given the overall utility of it ;)
>
> At present there is no good interface that would allow a user space
> utility to request part of the keyboard. And I do not know any userspace
> utilities today that would profit from the possibility.
>
This I've done too, but it's a skeleton for now.
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