Re: [PATCH] cannot input bar with JP106 keyboards

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 06:30:49PM +0900, ryutaroh@it.ss.titech.ac.jp wrote:

> Thank you for your very quick reply.
> 
> From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
> > Can you try the attached patch?
> 
> The problem was not solved.
> 
> When I pressed the bar key on JP 106 keyboard, the output of "showkey
> -k" is
> 
> keycode   0 press
> keycode   1 release
> keycode  54 release
> keycode   0 release
> keycode   1 release
> keycode  54 release
> 
> The scancode does not change. Before applying your patch to the
> original kernel, the output was
> 
> keycode   0 press
> keycode   1 release
> keycode  55 release
> keycode   0 release
> keycode   1 release
> keycode  55 release
> 
> which corresponds to keycode 183 (= 1*128 + 55).
> 
> The output of Linux 2.4.23 was
> 
> keycode 124 press
> keycode 124 release
> 
> 
> By the way, the bar key on JP 106 keyboard is actually the backslash
> key and bar is equal to shift-backslash on JP 106. But there is
> another backslash key (scancode 0x73) and input of backslash is not a
> problem.

Keycode 183 is correct for the japanese backslash key. 2.4 didn't
differentiate, 2.6 does. You just need to update your keymap.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR