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ToadMan8
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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject: dmesg giving unusable output while trying to map keys |
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I realize that there are numerous posts that involve the question of mapping media keys on keyboards to various functions, but I have taken the advice that those posters were given (namely viewing The Multimedia Keys How-to).
While, as advised, using dmesg to determine the scancodes, in order to map them appropriately and then work from there, I get the following output from dmesg:
| Code: | atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
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I get that for every keystroke from a non-mapped key. This differs significantly from the output the how-to claims should be there:
| Code: | atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x96 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e016 <keycode>' to make it known. |
I searched the forums to try to determine whether I was simply missing something or using dmesg improperly, but to no avail (or I wouldn't waste your time asking for your help). That having been said, I'm stumped on something that I feel should be easy to figure out, and as such rather frustrated. Please let me know what I am doing wrong! |
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yabbadabbadont
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| Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know if it will help you as I don't have a multimedia keyboard, but the showkey utility might do what you want.
It should already be on your system as it is part of sys-apps/kbd. |
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ToadMan8
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| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:19 am Post subject: |
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| Hmm, I tried that as you suggested, but it does not acknowledge any keypresses that xev doesn't, and therefore doesn't really help here. Thanks for the idea, though! |
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ToadMan8
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| Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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::cough::
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ToadMan8
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| again, bump |
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