Re: keyboard map

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

--- On Sun, 1/17/10, flash  wrote:

> Not a bad idea. Shall we poll the keyboards out there
> amongst us?
>
> That is exactly what I did for my Cherry keyboard.
> Keycode.exe returned
> no code for some keys (such as print-screen), and returned
> numbers in
> the 300 range which made no sense to me or to Xy for some
> keys (for
> example, 325 for num-lock) but enough keys were correctly
> identified to
> allow me to modify my kbd file to suit my needs.
>

Once upon a time, the key scancodes were pretty standardized
and unchanging -- at least for most desktop systems. The
vast menagerie of laptops changed all that (or so it seems
to me), and by this point it's anyone's guess.

 Jordan