-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan McDowell [mailto:noodles@earth.li]
*) The keypad setup as a primary input device, with the aim of being able to use it for the console. Personally I'm doing most of my prodding over the serial port at present, but I get the impression this is what a number of people want?
Nope that's the way I've done it. I can happily run a Delta as a little Linux computer with nothing more than the LCD screen and PS/2 keyboard as the "console" (in fact I do it quite often). I've also arranged for the matrix keys on top of the phone to duplicate the functionality of the similarly named PS/2 keys (so qwerty can be used on top of phone as well if you're a masochist with pointy fingers). The unique matrix keys generate their own unique keycodes too.
Cliff
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 05:44:05PM +0100, Cliff Lawson wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan McDowell [mailto:noodles@earth.li]
*) The keypad setup as a primary input device, with the aim of being able to use it for the console. Personally I'm doing most of my prodding over the serial port at present, but I get the impression this is what a number of people want?
Nope that's the way I've done it. I can happily run a Delta as a little Linux computer with nothing more than the LCD screen and PS/2 keyboard as the "console" (in fact I do it quite often). I've also arranged for the matrix keys on top of the phone to duplicate the functionality of the similarly named PS/2 keys (so qwerty can be used on top of phone as well if you're a masochist with pointy fingers). The unique matrix keys generate their own unique keycodes too.
I think we might be talking at cross purposes here; we only have what I think you cal the matrix keys (and I call the keypad) working; the buttons on the top of the device itself. We haven't got the mailboard working yet, though Matt Callow has worked out the GPIO pins and started trying to plumb it into the serio infrastructure. Thus I was suggesting "abusing" some of the keys on the keypad for more useful characters until we get the mailboard operational. Of course that might happen over the weekend. :)
J.
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