From 81caffe7646d73c7b705e4207a6e69a82f509c4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gferg <>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 23:40:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] updated
---
LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/howtoChap.sgml | 2 +-
LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/hwSect.sgml | 2 +-
.../linuxdoc/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.sgml | 35 +++++++++++++++----
3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/howtoChap.sgml b/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/howtoChap.sgml
index 328de22e..63aa4e63 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/howtoChap.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/howtoChap.sgml
@@ -1405,7 +1405,7 @@ such as the most important components, how they work, and so on.
Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO,
There exists a clone of the kbd package, namely
-
@@ -86,7 +86,10 @@ see infocmp(1).
The Linux console sequences are documented in console_codes(4).
-
+The package funkey by Rick van Rein provides support
+for all these new keys modern keyboards have. See
+
@@ -925,6 +928,10 @@ AMI BIOS has a feature that locks up the keyboard and flashes the LED's
if the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace combination is pressed while a BIOS password
is enabled, until the CMOS/BIOS password is typed in.
+On some SiS based motherboards the combination Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
+will cause a power off, or puts the machine in power save mode.
+(Reported for SiS 630 and for SiS645DX.)
+
+Many modern keyboards have buttons or keys with labels like
+"Vol Up", "Eject" etc. that suggest actions rather than strings.
+Of course one can bind shell commands to them, but then they'll
+work only when you are at a shell prompt.
+Rick van Rein wrote a package funkey consisting of a kernel patch
+and a daemon. The kernel patch creates a new character device,
+and adds a new key type to indicate which keystrokes should be
+sent to this new character device. A daemon can now listen to
+the character device, somewhat like gpm listens to the
+mouse device, and perform the actions indicated in its config file.
+See