[syslinux] kbdmap & ASCII > 128

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Oct 17 10:38:20 PDT 2002


Josef Siemes wrote:
> 
> Agreed ....
> 
> So does the BIOS give ALT-Q to syslinux if I press AltGr-Q? Or is it nothing?
> If yes, is it possible to remap this?
> 

Alt-Q, yes.

> Reason for this is also backslash, tilde, the {[]}-keys etc, these all get accessed
> via AltGr. If it's possible without changing anything in syslinux or if it's a small
> change (and you have the time to do this) it's ok, if this would be some more work
> forget about this. It would be nice to have these keys, but it won't hurt if not,
> since I can always define a different label for this.

It's nontrivial (mostly because it'd mean actually having to go in and 
hammer on the keymap generator program), and I would recommend avoiding 
it... it makes it harder for people with other keyboards than the one 
you'd expect.

	-hpa





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