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Re: GS Weakness is the keyboard????




Great response on the adjustable keyboard question!  That explains why the
keyboard lights work for a while while the system is booting but fails to
continue working when the system is booted.  I guess I'll have to suffer with a
third party split keyboard.  ;)>
>The reason it doesn't work is that it almost certainly uses a "device
>handler" code number that is not supported by the IIgs keyboard
>microcontroller.
>
>Each ADB device has an 8-bit device handler code that specifies how the
>device is to behave.  It can be set to different values under software
>control to adjust major behavioural options.  For example, the Apple
>Extended Keyboard has two different handler codes: the normal one, and a
>special one which enables independent detection of the left and right
>modifier keys.