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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Using a standard IBM 101-key keyboard, in BL2, the backspace works 
properly with Xvesa (and icewm) but not with the SVGA X server, until I 
add to /root/.xinitrc the line (at the beginning of the file):

xmodmap /var/X11R6/lib/etc/xmodmap.84

xmodmap.84 is a file I made which remaps the backspace key in X and also 
the number pad keys so that they will work as arrow keys and Home/PgUp etc 
on my 84-key keyboard.  It specifies ALL the keymappings.


I remapped my CLI keyboard as well, so PgUp would act like Page Up to let 
me press Shift-PgUp to see the preceding screen.  No need for a mouse and 
scrollbar.  (CLI is text-mode without X - command line interface).

I have in etc/rc.d/rc.M (or in BL3 /etc/rc).

/usr/bin/loadkeys << EOF
shift keycode 73 = Scroll_Backward
shift keycode 81 = Scroll_Forward
EOF

This could also have been done by loading a new keymap (as for X).

There is a similar simpler way to fix the backspace in X, see the 
archives under keyboard and backspace.

Sindi

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
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