Re: [9fans] German USB keyboard on Raspberry Pi

["Holger Sebert" <Holger.Sebert@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

Hi,

Am 21.04.13 01:18, schrieb Bakul Shah:
> On 20 Apr 2013 22:08:00 +0200 "Holger Sebert" <Holger.Sebert@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
>> This phenomenon does not exist on a x86-based
>> installation of Plan 9, so it seems specific
>> to the Raspberry Pi.
>
> Strange.... Is the x86 installation on real hardware or under
> a VM? If the latter, the underlying OS may be doing the right
> thing for you. In any case, you can try to find out what
> scancodes are reported and create your own kbmap file.
>
> % echo kbargs -dd > /dev/usbdctl
> Remove and replug your keyboard and watch what happens when
> you press your "< | >" key.
>
> When I do this I get a constant stream of
>
> kbd mod 0: kc 0 kc 0 kc 0 kc 0 kc 0 kc 0
> kbd mod 0: kc 0 kc 0 kc 0 kc 0 kc 0 kc 0
> kbd mod 0: kc 0 kc 0 kc 0 kc 0 kc 0 kc 0
>
> which is probably due to my el-cheapo keyboard
> but may be this will behave better for you.
>

I have tried it out: The driver says
"sc: e0 56" when pressing the "<"-key.
This is nice! However, I have no idea how
to put this (extended?) scan code into
the kbmap-file. The naive try:

0 0xe056 '<

resulted in "cat: write error copying lib/kbmap/de:
bad arg in system call".

Any idea?

Best,
Holger