[PATCH 3/3] Remove ancient documentation of IBM RapidAccess keyboard hack
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Sat May 22 10:38:01 PDT 2010
Keyboard setup belongs in drivers, not in a document no one sees
because we don't even install it.
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
---
hw/xfree86/doc/Makefile.am | 3 +-
hw/xfree86/doc/README.rapidaccess | 48 -------------------------------------
2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 hw/xfree86/doc/README.rapidaccess
diff --git a/hw/xfree86/doc/Makefile.am b/hw/xfree86/doc/Makefile.am
index bfdf86d..33ff18a 100644
--- a/hw/xfree86/doc/Makefile.am
+++ b/hw/xfree86/doc/Makefile.am
@@ -5,5 +5,4 @@ SUBDIRS = man
endif
EXTRA_DIST = \
- README.modes \
- README.rapidaccess
+ README.modes
diff --git a/hw/xfree86/doc/README.rapidaccess b/hw/xfree86/doc/README.rapidaccess
deleted file mode 100644
index 39f515e..0000000
--- a/hw/xfree86/doc/README.rapidaccess
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-The IBM Rapid Access keyboard have some extra buttons
-on it to launch programs, control a cd-player and so on.
-
-These buttons is not functional when the computer is turned
-on but have to be activated by sending the codes 0xea 0x71
-to it.
-
-I've written the following hack to send codes to the keyboard:
-
---------------------------------------------------------------
-/* gcc -O2 -s -Wall -osend_to_keyboard send_to_keyboard.c */
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <unistd.h>
-#include <sys/io.h>
-
-int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
-{
- int i;
-
- ioperm( 0x60, 3, 1 );
-
- for( i = 1; i < argc; i++ ) {
- int x = strtol( argv[i], 0, 16 );
-
- usleep( 300 );
- outb( x, 0x60 );
- }
-
- return 0;
-}
---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-As root you can then call this program (in your boot scripts)
-as "send_to_keyboard ea 71" to turn on the extra buttons.
-
-It's not a good idea to run several instances of this program
-at the same time. It is a hack but it works. If you try to
-send other codes to the keyboard it probably will lock up.
-For other codes see:
-
-http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-2.html#ss2.22
-
---
-Dennis Björklund <db at zigo.dhs.org>
-
-
-
-$XFree86$
--
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