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- From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: KBDFLAGS=0x80 doesn't seem to work in 0.99pl2 (possible bug)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.104135.14069@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 10:41:35 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.082618.24831@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 18
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- In article <1993Jan4.082618.24831@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> bogstad@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
- > I've been looking at the keyboard drivers thinking about some
- >enhancements and trying to figure out what is going on. The root directory
- >Makefile for 0.99pl2 has comments in it about how you can set KBDFLAGS to
- >certain values in order to cause various things to happen. I was interested
- >in the 0x80 value to change the action of the Alt key. However from
- >examining the code, I couldn't figure how this was supposeed to work. I
- >decided to try building a kernel and see what would happen. Well, it didn't
- >work for me. I'ld like to find out if anyone else has tried this with a
- >recent version and can verify that it works for them.
-
- All the flag handling in the keyboard was changed around 0.98.6 or so:
- this is one of the casualties. The meta key handling bit is now a
- per-VC thing, and you can set it to be the default by changing the
- KBD_DEFFLAGS to also include the flag '(1 << VC_META)' in
- <linux/keyboard.h>. I guess I'll have to make it a config option...
-
- Linus
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