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- diff -up kbd-2.3.0/docs/man/man1/showkey.1.orig kbd-2.3.0/docs/man/man1/showkey.1
- --- kbd-2.3.0/docs/man/man1/showkey.1.orig 2020-07-08 19:25:47.000000000 +0200
- +++ kbd-2.3.0/docs/man/man1/showkey.1 2020-07-16 08:56:15.970254183 +0200
- @@ -84,6 +84,19 @@ corresponds to what the keyboard hardwar
- to know the scan codes sent by various keys it is better to boot a
- 2.4 kernel. Since 2.6.9 there also is the boot option atkbd.softraw=0
- that tells the 2.6 kernel to return the actual scan codes.
- +
- +.SH NOTES
- +The raw scan codes are available only on AT and PS/2 keyboards,
- +and even then they are disabled unless the
- +.B atkbd.softraw=0
- +kernel parameter is used.
- +When the raw scan codes are not available, the kernel uses a fixed built-in
- +table to produce scan codes from keycodes. Thus,
- +.BR setkeycodes (8)
- +can affect the output of
- +.B showkey
- +in scan code dump mode.
- +
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- .BR loadkeys (1),
- .BR dumpkeys (1),
- diff -up kbd-2.3.0/docs/man/man8/setkeycodes.8.orig kbd-2.3.0/docs/man/man8/setkeycodes.8
- --- kbd-2.3.0/docs/man/man8/setkeycodes.8.orig 2020-07-08 19:35:35.000000000 +0200
- +++ kbd-2.3.0/docs/man/man8/setkeycodes.8 2020-07-16 08:57:52.293900997 +0200
- @@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ the command
- will assign the keycode 112 to it, and then
- .BR loadkeys (1)
- can be used to define the function of this key.
- +
- +USB keyboards have standardized keycodes and
- +.B setkeycodes
- +doesn't affect them at all.
- .LP
- Some older kernels might hardwire a low scancode range to the
- equivalent keycodes; setkeycodes will fail when you try to remap
- @@ -60,6 +64,14 @@ None.
- .SH BUGS
- The keycodes of X have nothing to do with those of Linux.
- Unusual keys can be made visible under Linux, but not under X.
- +
- +.B setkeycodes
- +affects only the "first" input device
- +that has modifiable scancode-to-keycode mapping.
- +If there is more than one such device,
- +.B setkeycodes
- +cannot change the mapping of other devices than the "first" one.
- +
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- .BR dumpkeys (1),
- .BR loadkeys (1),
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