keymapping

[Robby Workman]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 05:42:59 +0100
David Woodfall <dave at dawoodfall.net> wrote:

> On (23:19 23/04/11), Robby Workman <rw at rlworkman.net> put forth the
> proposition:
> >On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 03:27:46 +0100
> >David Woodfall <dave at dawoodfall.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, I have a usr9600 phone which acts as an extra keyboard and I'm
> >> trying to map keys 1-0 to keypad 1-0:
> >>
> >>          <append key="input.keymap.data"
> >> type="strlist">0x02:KP1</append> <append key="input.keymap.data"
> >> type="strlist">0x03:KP2</append> <append key="input.keymap.data"
> >> type="strlist">0x04:KP3</append> <append key="input.keymap.data"
> >> type="strlist">0x05:KP4</append> <append key="input.keymap.data"
> >> type="strlist">0x06:KP5</append> <append key="input.keymap.data"
> >> type="strlist">0x07:KP6</append> <append key="input.keymap.data"
> >> type="strlist">0x08:KP7</append> <append key="input.keymap.data"
> >> type="strlist">0x09:KP8</append> <append key="input.keymap.data"
> >> type="strlist">0x0a:KP9</append> <append key="input.keymap.data"
> >> type="strlist">0x0b:KP0</append>
> >>
> >> lshal shows the mappings but they aren't working. I got the codes
> >> with scankey -s and I've also tried using xev which show different
> >> keycodes.
> >>
> >> I've also tried <merge> instead of <append>
> >>
> >> Any ideas why this isn't working?
> >
> >
> >It's because recent Xorg uses udev instead of hal for this.
> 
> Even the xorg in slack 13.1? (By the way xorg/hal does see the
> keyboard and set layout etc. just not the maps)


Oh, yeah, still used hal in 13.1.  Not sure what's going on
there, and to be frank (and likely disappointing), I really
don't have much inclination to work on that since we're on
the verge of a new release (and hal is mostly dead anyway,
especially wrt xorg)...

-RW
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