HIL -> Keymap ok?

pa's,

I recently needed to connect an HIL keyboard to our 715/50 boxes and was surprised to find that the key mapping was less than correct (2.4.18-pa22).

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5. Scorpio Core HIL (10) at 0xf0821000 [2/0/3], versions 0x7, 0x0, 0x73 Found HIL at 0xf0821000, IRQ 94
HIL: keyboard found at id 0
HIL: keymap loaded.
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Looks okay. But I get all the wrong letters and control commands in all the wrong places (e.g. a=x, i=\n).

I've tried on two or three boxes with two or three different keyboards (have a whole box of HIL keyboards if anyone is in desperate need of one).

The install is based on 0.9.3 with all the latest apt-get updates. I stopped running keymap.sh with no adverse effects (since the keymap is loaded by the HIL driver).

The HIL driver is the old one?
[Character Devices]-[Support for Console on VT]-[HIL kbd support]

CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_HIL=y

I also have a serial console enabled.

I haven't tried HP System Device Driver (i8042) yet... (Though from the looks of it, it's not quite complete?)

Any thoughts? (I've wadded through the list archives but no success).

c.

p.s. This is just the start of my quest to stop the unbliking eye...
a.k.a. "hardware cusor blinking" ... from _always_ appearing during framebuffer writes.

Hmm, I've no problems with my HIL keyboard on console. (In X11 you have of course to use the correct mapping.)

Shouldn't be that hard.

Greetings,
Helge

Helge,

I've done a few nasty things to /drivers/video/sti to attempt to stop the hardware cursor bliking, but I've not succeeded.

Even if I have no console on /dev/fb0 the penguin and blinking cursor are the first things to appear as the fb device is initialized.

Any hints?

c.