From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dsl092-170-083.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.170.83] helo=toccata.grg.afb.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 163hbP-000060-00 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:44:03 -0500 Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by toccata.grg.afb.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fADHhwo06252 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:43:58 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: toccata.grg.afb.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:43:57 -0500 (EST) From: Janina Sajka X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: Keymaps. Keyboards. ... In-Reply-To: <20011112212911.A10888@dalek.dhs.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Buddy: It's interesting to me that you get a scan code for the fn key. That should prove valuable in the end, though I'm not in a position to advise how to code for it. What I think would be very useful on the Thinkpad is to create a key function, perhaps FN+Control that pops up the keyboard. Thinkpads are great machines, but the Shift+ScrollLock thing to access the pop up numeric has got to go. On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Buddy Brannan wrote: > Hi guys, > > OK, I actually have a keyboard layout that I like better than the last > one I submitted. I shifted everything down one row for the most part, > moved the stuff on the bottom up to the number keys on the top, > changed a couple of other keypad assignments...but it's more > consistent with the keypad definitions on the numeric keypad. I think > I might build a kernel with that keypad so I can use right alt-q to > silence the Speakup boot messages on my laptop. But I'm running into a > little behavior, and I wonder if anyone has a clue what I can do about > it? ("Don't press that key" is an answer I've already thought of.) > > The FN key on my Thinkpad A21M does not, as I mentioned, activate an > embedded numeric keypad. It does do some other things (at least in a > non-Linux OS). In Linux, however, all it seems to do is stick a > message like > Keyboard: Unknown scan code 0e 63 > > It's something like that, but obviously i'm not typing this on that > keyboard. > > I tried running showkey, but it did the same thing with that > particular key. > > Anyone have any ideas about this particular key and how I can make use > of it (or at least get rid of the error message)? > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp