XF4, SysRq, VT, mouse buttons, Keymaps and all that

[Tony Mantler]

At 7:44 AM -0500 4/18/2001, Iain Sandoe wrote:
[...]
>> Also, what happens if someone wants to hook up a PC USB keyboard to their
>> mac? Obviously not generating an NMI is a given, but no access to SAK is
>> avoidable.
>
>Apparently, some Apple keyboards don't have a <power> key either.

The Happy-Hacking ADB keyboard for one (just looked at the web page, was
the first that came to mind).

I'm not sure about apple designed keyboards besides those on the Mac+ and
like machines (non-adb). All the ones I've seen - FrogDesign/IIGS, Apple
Extended II, AppleDesign, Apple Adjustable, etc - have it. I haven't seen
an Apple Extended I or a non-extended (was there one?) for years, so I
can't say about those ones.


>Anyway the SysRq key for USB must be handled somewhere else - I'm looking at
>the mac_hid/adb/mac_keyb code which is specific to adb-based machines IIUC.

Ah, ok. Wasn't sure about that.


[...]
>Ben just mailed me a much better suggestion:
>
>"Pass the SysRq combination in as a kernel argument".
>
>This would allow those with SysRQ keys (e.g. ISO/ANSI kbds) to use it, power
>books could have something that actually exists etc. etc.
[...]

Very nice idea.

...hopefully defaulted to the standard Alt-f13/printscreen/sysrq-key in the
absense of the kernel commandline.


Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :)


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