X386 1.1a Keyboard Query/Problem

[Thomas Roell]

>Can someone out there (Thomas Roell?) explain how to differentiate between the
>cursor keys (the home, insert, arrows, etc. keys) and the keypad keys under
>X386 1.1?  I have an AT 101 key keyboard, and there seems to be no way to
>make the keypad keys do 'DEC' terminal things and not screw up the other
>cursor keys.

Ok, lets me explain whats going on:

1) Cursorpad and Numpad keys *should* send different scancodes:

	0x48       Numpad, CursorUp
	0xe0 0x48  Cursorpad, CursorUp

   The magic is that there is a special prefix for these cursorpad keys. X386
   recognices both of them and maps then cursorpad key to DIFFERENT keycodes
   than the numpadkeycodes (try to use 'xmodmap -pk' and you'll see the two
   different sets). BUT NOT EVERY KEYBOARD USES THAT CONVENTION !!!!!!!!!!!
   (That was the source of the keyboard problems with X386 1.1) You now
   may have such a keyboard with that feature. You can easyly check this
   by using 'xev' to determine whether the cursorpad keys and the numpad keys
   send the same keycodes.

2) If you keyboard works well you can remap the second set of the cursorkeycode
   according to your needs ...

- Thomas
 
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