On Saturday, December 27 2003 04:22 pm, Thorsten Giese wrote: > Am Samstag, 27. Dezember 2003 20:48 schrieb George Socker: > > First, thanks for your answer. > > > What do you mean by "not recognized"? If you don't see KeyPress/ > > KeyRelease events then the special keys probably need to be > > programmed. > > That is exactly what happens. I can see the events for all other > keys, but not for the ones I mentioned in the first post. > > > Unfortunately, they probably require the Windows software to > > program. > > Of course there was a Windows CD in the package. ;) But: I thought, > all keyboards make an event by any keystroke. I exspected this > somewhere in the protocoll for the keyboards. Even if not assigned, > the button "is there", just like the 3-6-buttons with mice. The > assignment is the easy part, as you already mentioned. If the keyboard stores the programming information, and they come unassigned, they probably won't generate events. I have a Fingerworks Touchstream LP, and the keys on it that have no function by default don't generate any keycodes until they have a function assigned. > Is there an way to get the buttons work under X or is there no hope? > Would it help to boot Windows, assign there the keys (maybe in the > keyboards eeprom) and then have them under X? (I don't even know if > this keyboard has an eeprom, where to set the numbers, just a guess.) If they don't generate any keypresses by default there might be an eeprom on board, as I don't see how the Windows software could tell they'd been pressed if they don't generate anything. If it does have an eeprom, assigning the keys under Windows will probably work. > > If you do see events for them, then you will have to edit the xkb > > files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb to define symbols for them. Then > > you can set then as shortcuts if this is what you want. > > This is what I have already done for the ones, I'm getting events, so > I can tell what number they have. > > -- > regards > Thorsten > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
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