oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) (09/22/89)
For my DEC-trained hands, the shiftlock & control key positions on the PS2 keyboard are awful, and I am suffering. Does anyone know of a way to remap this keyboard under PS2 running AIX ?? There was a program that did this nicely under DOS, but I have not yet found a way to do this under AIX, and TFM seems to indicate that this may not be doable (?) [Tho I must admit I have skimmed the documentation fairly rapidly, and I may have missed something.] oz -- The king: If there's no meaning Usenet: oz@nexus.yorku.ca in it, that saves a world of trouble ......!uunet!utai!yunexus!oz you know, as we needn't try to find any. Bitnet: oz@[yulibra|yuyetti] Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland) Phonet: +1 416 736-5257x3976
mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz) (09/23/89)
In article <3914@yunexus.UUCP> oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes: >For my DEC-trained hands, the shiftlock & control key positions on the PS2 >keyboard are awful, and I am suffering. Does anyone know of a way to remap >this keyboard under PS2 running AIX ?? Here's a magical sequence for doing it. From the first HFT on the console press: control left-alt right-shift twice enter the letter "c" press enter Your caps lock is now a control key and the left-alt key is now the caps lock. -- Mark Dapoz (mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP) ...uunet!mnetor!hybrid!mdapoz I remind you that humans are only a tiny minority in this galaxy. -- Spock, "The Apple," stardate 3715.6.
usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (09/23/89)
In article <3914@yunexus.UUCP> oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes: >For my DEC-trained hands, the shiftlock & control key positions on the PS2 >keyboard are awful, and I am suffering. Does anyone know of a way to remap >this keyboard under PS2 running AIX ?? There was a program that did this >nicely under DOS, but I have not yet found a way to do this under AIX, and >TFM seems to indicate that this may not be doable (?) [Tho I must admit I >have skimmed the documentation fairly rapidly, and I may have missed >something.] > The answer to your question is a qualified yes. There is a program which will allow you to remap keys on the keyboard. (I believe that the program is called defkey, though I don't remember offhand) In any case, although the program is very nice, and lets you do some neat things, it NOT let you swap those two keys. In the tech ref (vol 1) under the devices section, there is a list off all the different possible keyboards, and the values associated with each key. Under the CAPS LOCK key and the CTRL key there is a note which states that "these keys may not be altered" or some such. Unless something gets rewritten, you are going to have to live with it. BTW, I've had two months of practice and I'm STILL confusing them! Greg Stockton
oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev) (09/24/89)
In article <3914@yunexus.UUCP> oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes: >For my DEC-trained hands, the shiftlock & control key positions on the PS2 >keyboard are awful, and I am suffering. So is everyone else. >Does anyone know of a way to remap this keyboard under PS2 running AIX ? By changing the keyboard scan code mapping in the kernel. Swapping the "ESC" and "`/~" keys is also very helpful. If the system you have contains "ldminit" program, you are half-way there. adb can also be helpful. Perhaps I should write a quick patching hack to do this key-swap thing... Jack? Want to do it? -- "No regrets, no apologies" Ronald Reagan Oleg Kiselev ARPA: lcc.oleg@seas.ucla.edu, oleg@gryphon.COM (213)337-5230 UUCP: [world]!{ucla-se|gryphon}!lcc!oleg
jackv@turnkey.gryphon.COM (Jack F. Vogel) (09/25/89)
In article <20188@gryphon.COM> oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev) writes: >In article <3914@yunexus.UUCP> oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes: >>For my DEC-trained hands, the shiftlock & control key positions on the PS2 >>keyboard are awful, and I am suffering. >If the system you have contains "ldminit" program, you are half-way there. >adb can also be helpful. Perhaps I should write a quick patching hack to >do this key-swap thing... Jack? Want to do it? Sorry Oleg, I won't bite. Besides as a previous poster pointed out ( I wondered where he learned this since I am not aware of it being documented) you can remap just those two keys using the console MDMODE. See that posting on how to do it. Furthermore, I don't know if AIX PS/2 1.x has ldminit and even if it did, it can only alter the data segment of the kernel, and I don't believe your mappings live there. Finally, adb is not part of the product, dbx is the supported debugger. Oh Well. Disclaimer: IMHO -- Jack F. Vogel jackv@seas.ucla.edu AIX Technical Support - or - Locus Computing Corp. jackv@ifs.umich.edu
oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev) (09/25/89)
In article <6372@turnkey.gryphon.COM> jackv@turnkey.gryphon.COM writes: >Sorry Oleg, I won't bite. Besides as a previous poster pointed out ( I >wondered where he learned this since I am not aware of it being documented) >you can remap just those two keys using the console MDMODE. I was under impression that the console/kernel debugger was not shipped in the General Availability product. I may be wrong. >Furthermore, I don't know if AIX PS/2 1.x has >ldminit and even if it did, it can only alter the data segment of the >kernel, and I don't believe your mappings live there. Well, maint invokes ldminit, so it must be somewhere there. Unless 386 maint has gotten changed to use "newkernel" only -- I have been trying to stay away from installation as far as I can, I am reasonably sure that the key mappings are in the data section. Take a look at os.config on izar or electra, for instance. >Finally, adb is not part of the product, dbx is the supported debugger. In Gen2 as well?!?! A stroke of executive genius, to be sure. I assume, though, physpatch is available? If not, someone out there can make some money writing a binary symbolic editor for AIX. -- "No regrets, no apologies" Ronald Reagan Oleg Kiselev ARPA: lcc.oleg@seas.ucla.edu, oleg@gryphon.COM (213)337-5230 UUCP: [world]!{ucla-se|gryphon}!lcc!oleg
mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz) (09/26/89)
In article <20206@gryphon.COM> oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev) writes: >I was under impression that the console/kernel debugger was not shipped in the >General Availability product. I may be wrong. No, it is shipped and even documented under the device driver section (where else :-), it starts on page C-92 of the Tech Ref Vol 2. I guess including it sorta makes up for leaving out adb, grrrrr. -- Mark Dapoz (mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP) ...uunet!mnetor!hybrid!mdapoz I remind you that humans are only a tiny minority in this galaxy. -- Spock, "The Apple," stardate 3715.6.