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- The IBM Rapid Access keyboard have some extra buttons
- on it to launch programs, control a cd-player and so on.
-
- These buttons is not functional when the computer is turned
- on but have to be activated by sending the codes 0xea 0x71
- to it.
-
- I've written the following hack to send codes to the keyboard:
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------
- /* gcc -O2 -s -Wall -osend_to_keyboard send_to_keyboard.c */
- #include <stdlib.h>
- #include <unistd.h>
- #include <sys/io.h>
-
- int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
- {
- int i;
-
- ioperm( 0x60, 3, 1 );
-
- for( i = 1; i < argc; i++ ) {
- int x = strtol( argv[i], 0, 16 );
-
- usleep( 300 );
- outb( x, 0x60 );
- }
-
- return 0;
- }
- --------------------------------------------------------------
-
- As root you can then call this program (in your boot scripts)
- as "send_to_keyboard ea 71" to turn on the extra buttons.
-
- It's not a good idea to run several instances of this program
- at the same time. It is a hack but it works. If you try to
- send other codes to the keyboard it probably will lock up.
- For other codes see:
-
- http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-2.html#ss2.22
-
- --
- Dennis Bj÷rklund <db@zigo.dhs.org>
-
-
-
- $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/README.rapidaccess,v 1.1 2001/05/18 23:35:32 dawes Exp $
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