Re: DEC Keyboard Question
From: FredK (fred.nospam_at_nospam.dec.com)
Date: 01/26/05
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:54:53 GMT
The console does not perform the magic act of identifying the KB AFAIK.
If you want the console to know about it, you have to tell it. I *suppose*
if
everyone were to set it as appropriate, then I could use it.
Nor does that handle hot-plug. For example, plugging in a LK411 to an
AlphaBook.
"Ken Fairfield" <my.full.name@intel.com> wrote in message
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> FredK wrote:
> > The "default" is a PC-style KB. To get the driver to handle the KB
> > as a LK411 there is an obscure handshake where the driver sends
> > certain commands that will return "error" characters on a standard
> > KB, and return something else on an LK411 (the LK450 has a subtle
> > variation on this as well).
>
> Some (many?) Alpha consoles, certainly my PWS 600au, have a
> console variable kbd_hardware_type which can be set to either
> PCXAL or LK411, IIRC. Are you saying this console variable
> is ignored? Too bad, that...
>
> -Ken
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