Re: keyboard raw mode

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Sunday 02 July 2006 04:21, Congjun Yang wrote:
> 2.6.9-22.EL(CentOS 4.2) is what I currently use.
> 2.4.20 was where I first saw, in keyboard.c, the
> workaround that throws away a second break code.
> 

I think it should work in 2.6.9... The change was put in in summer
of 2004, 2.6.9 was released in fall...

Try booting with atkbd.softraw=0 to turn off software rawmode
emulation and I think you will see all the codes from your
device.

> I think I like the new design for the user input
> system: separate the protocol layer from the raw port.
> But, would it be nice for the atkbd driver to still
> provide a raw (or passthrough) mode?
> 

It does ;)

-- 
Dmitry
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