Re: Trying to make 9front work on QWERTZ

on my t23, which has physical german keyboard layout, the scancode
for the [<>|] key left to the [Y] key is 0x56 (86 decimal), which
is not mapped with us layout.

tho this is mapped in german keyboard layout:

term% grep '	86' /sys/lib/kbmap/de
0	86	'<
1	86	'>
2	86	0
3	86	'|
4	86	0

running the following on my t23 maps it.

term% echo '0 0x56 ''<' > /dev/kbmap
term% echo '1 0x56 ''>' > /dev/kbmap
term% echo '3 0x56 ''|' > /dev/kbmap

maybe your keyboard produces a different scancode?

you can attach ratrace to kbdfs [scanproc] pid and look what
it reads back from /dev/scancode for a ps2 keyboard.
usb keyboards work differently.

you can bring back that scancode debug thing with F11/F12
with the following patch which should work for both ps2 and usb
keyboards.

--- a/sys/src/cmd/aux/kbdfs/kbdfs.c	Thu Jul 25 17:44:47 2019 +0200
+++ b/sys/src/cmd/aux/kbdfs/kbdfs.c	Sat Jul 27 11:12:20 2019 +0200
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 	int	alt;
 	int	altgr;
 	int	leds;
+	int	debug;
 };
 
 struct Qtab {
@@ -337,6 +338,9 @@
 {
 	Key key;
 
+	if(scan->debug)
+		fprint(2, "kbdputsc %#p sc %x esc1 %d esc2 %d\n", scan, c, scan->esc1, scan->esc2);
+
 	/*
 	 *  e0's is the first of a 2 character sequence, e1 and e2 the first
 	 *  of a 3 character sequence (on the safari)
@@ -390,6 +394,13 @@
 	if(scan->ctl && scan->alt && key.r == Kdel)
 		reboot();
 
+	if(key.down){
+		if(key.b == (KF|11))
+			scan->debug = 1;
+		if(key.b == (KF|12))
+			scan->debug = 0;
+	}
+
 	if(key.b)
 		send(keychan, &key);

after applying that change, run mk install in /sys/src/cmd/aux/kbdfs
and then rebuild the kernel (as kbdfs gets included into the kernel image).

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cinap