Laptop keymap... was: battery on notebook

[Ameer Armaly]

You don't even have to run genmap; just recompile and it's a standard target 
in speakup.

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From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: Laptop keymap... was: battery on notebook


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> On Wed, Sep 29 2004 at 04:41:31PM -0400, Terry D. Cudney wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Yes, Janina, you are right here. It is part of the speakup patches 
>> applied when you select speakup in the configuration of your kernel. I 
>> designed the keymapping to emulate the numeric keypad layout for the most 
>> part. David Borowski integrated it into the speakup patches and Kirk 
>> included it with them in CVS speakup.
>>
>> This was done over a year ago, and David  said that he was thinking of 
>> making user-definable keymappings easy at that time, I haven't heard from 
>> him in a long time. So I don't know if this is still in his 'to-do' list 
>> or not.
>
> When you compile a kernel with speakup there should be an executable
> called genmap created in /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup. Use this
> program as follows after you make the changes you want to
> speakupmap.map.
>
> ./genkey speakupmap.map >/proc/speakup/keymap
>
> This should update the keymap in the currently running speakup. What I
> have done is to write a keymap to /etc/speakup/ and then used
> speakupconf to load and save it. Since I haven't done this in a while
> standard disclaimers apply, YMMV, Etc.
>
> HTH
>
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> Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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