Keyboard scancodes

Andries Brouwer, aeb@cwi.nl

1. Ordinary PC keyboards

• 1.1 Key release
• 1.2 Protocol scancodes
• 1.3 Escape scancodes
• 1.4 Ordinary scancodes
• 1.5 Escaped scancodes
• 1.6 Fake shifts
• 1.7 Turbo Mode
• 1.8 Power Saving

2. Special keyboards

• 2.1 Cherry G80-0777
• 2.2 Amstrad/Schneider PC1512
• 2.3 Focus KeyPro FK-9000 keyboard
• 2.4 BTC keyboard
• 2.5 LK450 keyboard
• 2.6 OmniKey keyboard
• 2.7 GRiD 2260 keyboard
• 2.8 A Japanese 86/106 keyboard
• 2.9 Trust Ergonomic keyboard
• 2.10 Brazilian keyboard
• 2.11 RC930 keyboard
• 2.12 Tandberg Data keyboard
• 2.13 A Chinese keyboard
• 2.14 Microsoft Natural keyboard
• 2.15 Microsoft Internet keyboard
• 2.16 Microsoft Natural keyboard pro
• 2.17 Logitech Internet keyboard
• 2.18 Compaq Armada laptop keyboard
• 2.19 Rapid Access keyboard
• 2.20 Rapid Access II keyboard
• 2.21 Chicony KBP-8993 keyboard
• 2.22 Logitech Cordless Desktop Pro keyboard
• 2.23 Keyboards for HP Kayak and Vectra
• 2.24 A keyboard using e0 as ordinary scancode
• 2.25 IBM ThinkPad
• 2.26 A keyboard
• 2.27 Keyboards with many keys
• 2.28 A keyboard treating PrtSc/SysRq like Pause/Break

3. Keyboard-internal scancodes

• 3.1 Three scancode sets
• 3.2 Make and Break codes
• 3.3 Translation
• 3.4 Use

4. USB

5. Reporting