Re: Microsoft keyboard and unworking keys

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 15:19, Andre Ramaciotti
<andre.ramaciotti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:34, Andre Ramaciotti
>> <andre.ramaciotti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> as in "they don't show any keycode
>>> on 'xev' or 'showkey'".
>>
>> It sounds like those keys are broken. It should be sending something. Is it old?
>
> It's barely used.  I don't think the keys are broken, most probably,
> these keys send the "I've been pressed" signal in a non-standard way
> (you know, it's Microsoft, it wouldn't surprise me at all).  I suspect
> this because this keyboard comes with an installation CD, which probably
> contains some kind of special driver (for Windows and Mac OS X only).
>

Likely they don't have a kernel mapping, so X doesn't even see them.
You'll need to get their scancodes with `showkeys`, and map them to
keycodes with `setkeycodes`, while out of X.

~celti


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