Michael.Joswig@germany.sun.com (Michael Joswig (Vertriebsunterstuetzung Hamburg)) (01/14/91)
Hello everyone!
I have upgraded my Minix-ST via the net (nice, nice!) and installed
several patches (al "official" 3). I copied "keyboard.ge.h" to
"keyboard.h" because I do have a german layout. When I made the Kernel and
rebooted, I didn't had access to the keypad (is it keypad? those Numbers on
the right side of mey Keyboard...). All I got were useless signs but no
numbers at all. Did anybody had the same problems (Seems this goes to the
non-US-users)?
Any idea/solution?
Ciao,
Michael.
laverman@cs.rug.nl (Bert Laverman) (01/14/91)
Michael Joswig writes: > I copied "keyboard.ge.h" to > "keyboard.h" because I do have a german layout. I hope you also patched Makefile... It knows about these different layouts. > When I made the Kernel and > rebooted, I didn't had access to the keypad (is it keypad? those Numbers on > the right side of mey Keyboard...). All I got were useless signs but no > numbers at all. This ain't a bug; it's a feature ;-) Your keyboard is now a vt100 keyboard, which means that your keypad generates DEC VT-100 compatible codes. The Function keys now generate VT-200 compatible codes. Look at kernel/stkbd.c for what exactly it is they generate. If you want to recover the original coding - as was used in Minix ST 1.1 - you must set a #define in /usr/include/minix/config.h from VT100 to IBMPC or something like that. I kept vt100 style coding. At least it conforms to some kind of standard... Greetings, Bert Laverman. Disclaimer: Don't blame my Boss, He doesn't know what I'm saying either. _____________________________________________________________________ / \ | "The only problem with parameterization is that | | you never have enough parameters" - J.B. Goodenough | | at the RMISE Reuse Workshop | \_____________________________________________________________________/ Bert Laverman Dept. of Computing Science laverman@cs.rug.nl National Univ. of Groningen bert@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org P.O.Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen The Netherlands (+31 50)/(050) 633948
HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) (01/14/91)
The useless signs are intentionally. These are VT200-like function keys. If you want to keep your old binaries (like mined) that talk with the function keys, you must #define KEYBOARD IBM_PC (from memory) in /usr/include/minix/config.h Look at stkbd.c C.v.W.