On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 15:23, Celti <celticmadman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Er, sorry, I'm blind. You said you used showkey. Did you try it with '-s'?
