Re: [Trinux-talk] keyboard

[Projet G. <pro...@sm...>]

> Not sure if this helps:
>
> I added the busybox keyboard utilities to the latest initrd.gz
> http://trinux.sf.net/snaps/
>
> dumpkmap
> setkeycodes
> loadkmap

That's great, thank you. I think I'll try the setkeycodes command. The man 
page on busybox web site about this command is not really explicit but maybe 
I can solve my function keys problem with this command.

> I also added dumpkeys the to the kmap.tgz package.

Great too, so we don't need to install busybox anywhere else.

> Let me know if there is anything else that needs to be done to support
> non-US/non-QWERTY keyboards such as modifying the linuxrc or to allow
> user to specify keymap/country on the bootdevice so everything occurs
> automatically.

Well, there is something I need. As I told you in a previous mail, I would 
like to use Trinux to turn old PC into AS/400 diskless workstations.
Trinux is loaded and a tn5250 session is launched on a Mandrake box thanks too 
ssh to get an acces to the IBM's AS/400 server.
The thing is that regular dump stations use 24 fonction keys. I can use F1 up 
to F12 and then F13 up to F20 with shift F1-F8. My problem is that I cannot 
use the F21-F24 function keys.
I modified my keymap file but nothing happend. According to the guys at tn5250 
(http://tn5250.sourceforge.net), it's a termcap or terminfo problem. I have 
got a special termcap file and special terminfo directories supplied with 
tn5250. I suppose that I have to compile or install that files into Trinux to 
be able to use it because a simple copy/paste is useless.
Could you please let me know how I can modify Trinux to enable those 4 
function keys?
I know that other people could be interested in using my proposal based on 
Trinux for professional use. But it will certainly not be accepted if I 
cannot have F21 up to F24 with shift F9-F12. So, your help is really 
appreciated.

> - mdf

Cheers,

Mathieu