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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Thinkpad 360CE
Date: 15 Aug 1995 10:12:43 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Seppo Ruuskanen <Seppo.Ruuskanen@axis.se> wrote:
(I haven't seen the original article for some reason.)
>terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) wrote:
>>By default the Thinkpad initializes to type 2 scancodes.
>>
>>You should build a kernel on your desktop machine with the option
>>(documented in the LINT configuration file) to force the console driver
>>to use type 2 scancodes.
That's not entirely correct. It's not of much relevance whether the
Thinkpad initializes the keyboard to type 2 scancodes or not, since
syscons would set the ``generate PC compatible scan codes'' flag.
Anyway, the Thinkpad seems to refuse generating type 1 (old PeeCee)
scan codes at all. So the only chance is pcvt since it can cope with
both.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
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