Re: bad scancode for USB keyboard

[Bernardo Innocenti <bernie _at_ xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fredrik Olausson wrote:
> I have found a solution to the problem.
> XFree86 has 2 keyboard drivers, the default one named "keyboard" and an 
> alternative one named "kbd" which according to documentation on the 
> XFree86 website is a new keyboard driver mostly written from scratch. 
> With the kbd-driver the print-screen key and the |\-key got different 
> keycodes and thus I could make the |\-key give me the proper characters.
> 
> So, to summarize. Simply changing the line:
> Driver      "keyboard"
> to
> Driver      "kbd"
> in the input-device section in the XF86Config file and fiddling a bit 
> with xmodmap solved the problem for me.

That's good news, and I'd never heard about a new keyboard driver in
XFree86... It's indeed a project full of undocumented and obscure
features.

Err... what did you exactly say on the xmodmap command line to get
it to work? -)

-- 
  // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept.
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