Re: LK463
- From: Ken Fairfield <my.full.name@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:35:34 -0800
dittman@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Bob Koehler <koehler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:In article <2H0yf.511$sq.96@trnddc01>, dittman@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:I just bought an LK463 and am working to create a new keyboard map for OS X. To do this I need a complete list of the keycodes since the current keymaps don't pass them all.
Does anyone have a complete list they could send me? Once I have the new keyboard map finished I'll put it online for interested parties to download.
If you bring up X11 (Apple's current server for OS X is pretty good) and run somthing like xev, you can read off the keycodes yourself.
I tried that already and apparently OS X doesn't pass on keycodes it doesn't know.
I don't have a solution, but an observation. The LK463 is a USB keyboard. In principle, USB is "universal" and all the key codes sent should be received by the host system.
What a coworker and I discovered is that under Windows XP, there are several keys the Windows system, or the application running under Windows, just doesn't "see", e.g., Do and Help, IIRC...there may well be others.
My coworker spent some time with the Attachmate(?) folks using some diagnostic under KEAterm (which "saw" more of the keys than does Exceed) and they concluded that there simply was nothing being sent by the keyboard for those keys. I'm almost certain that's wrong, but it may very well be the case that the Windows USB driver for the keyboard is "swallowing" things it doesn't recognize and not sending them onto the application. This key works, as reported by Fred K., on VMS-supported USB equipment, e.g., the Itanium systems.
You may very well be between a rock and a hard place with your Mac. This keyboard works with Windows if and only if I use the supplied USB <-> PS/2 adapter, but I do Mac's have PS/2 ports?
The other possiblity/necessity would be to modify the USB keyboard driver for the Mac. I have no idea how one would go about doing that or where to find the source!
If you need the X-windows key codes and key symbols produced under DECwindows/Motif native on a DPW, I can probably provide those, but I expect your problem is much more basic than that.
-Ken -- I don't speak for Intel, Intel doesn't speak for me...
Ken Fairfield D1C Automation VMS System Support who: kenneth dot h dot fairfield where: intel dot com .
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