No Extra keys working on Keyboard

sonicbhoc · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:22 pm Post subject:

Kernel.org (I think that was the site) is the linux kernel's website, and on it they have a bug reporting system.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org
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Diavolo · Apprentice Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Posts: 151

Any news?

Dralnu · Veteran Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1919

FYI - I had a similar problem. The Kernel USB driver is slightly broken, but running the keyboard through PS/2 helps.

Using evdev, that should help with some keycodes as well. Beyond that, see if xev reports any keycodes. If it does, you can use xmodmap to map out the keys (or use one of the apps designed to do this sort of thing automatically), and you should be good to go. I've only had problems with a few not generating keycodes, and those are the more obscure ones (this is a problem I had that predated my evdev useage, btw that I havn't messed with since)
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djnauk · Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 2:00 am Post subject:

CoolBeer · Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 3:23 am Post subject:

This is a issue with the kernel evdev driver I think. Cause if I cat /dev/input/eventX (whichever is my keyboard) I get response for every key exept multimediakeys. Heck, I don't even get response with the evbug module...
Also the evdev driver for xorg is a little interesting. Even if you don't select that one for the keyboard, only for the mouse, it somehow takes over and no multimedia keys are working as intended.
I actually had to revert to using the mouse/kbd drivers to get my keys working properly(although the mouse buttons are a mess now...)
I will look into the bluez patch set however, but hope to see them make it into the kernel tree(or gentoo patchset) in the future.

djnauk · Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 1:05 pm Post subject:

tarpman · Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 1:45 pm Post subject:

nice necromancy

djnauk · Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 2:05 pm Post subject:

s4l0m0n · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 32 Location: Germany

well, i think i got a funky problem:

using

revilootneg · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:40 am Post subject:

hey s4l0m0n,

did you try the other possible logitech models?

s4l0m0n · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 32 Location: Germany

Well, i dont have an lx710, but a Internet Navigator SE.
But yes, i tried several layouts and many of them worked. Except this funky bug with XF86RaiseVolume. So i can confirm this.

I dont think its a problem with the layout, since i can assign XF86RaiseVolume to a function in KDE's config-dialogs. So the button is detected correctly, but only in the config-dialog, not in KDE where i wanna use it...

Im updating kde-meta right now, allthough i got a strong CPU this might take some time... Ill post it here if this fixes my prob.

Years ago, i used the same keyboard with Debian, there the keys worked perfectly...

revilootneg · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:17 am Post subject:

Well, I got myself the lx710. The following keys are not working atm:
- Fn + (F2, F3, Print, Break)
- all five silver keys on the left side
- silver shuffle button on the right side
- black VoIP button between the Fx keys.

The key assignment should work correctly with 2.6.23 kernel as there is a fix for lx500. I didn't have the time to check this in detail with git-sources-2.6.23-rc1-r6 but will try again today evening. I had a short look into drivers/usb/hid-* and compiled HID with debug enabled into the kernel. It seems the right keyassignments are made hid-vise but X receives nothing from the dead keys for now.

@s4l0m0n:

I experienced your problem with XF86AudioVolumeRaise and logiinkse as well. Using pc105 and modifiing ~/.Xmodmap made the XF86AudioVolumeRaise key work again.

s4l0m0n · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 32 Location: Germany

hm... sounds like much work... could u you post your XModmap file?

revilootneg · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject:

s4l0m0n · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 32 Location: Germany

ok, many thanks for the xmodmap idea. I had to make my own .Xmodmap but now everything works smoothly!
But the xev-method is quite annoying... if i had some scripting-skills, i'd make this more comfortable ^^

revilootneg · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 7:12 pm Post subject:

Some success here with the lx710 (both keyboard an mouse).

As I stated in my last posting every key except Fn + ( Print , Break ) sends a kernel-keycode. Using evdev (see the man-page for more info) I'm now able to receive X-keycodes with xev for all keys except the two mentioned. Unfortunately these keycodes are totally wrong and even the "normal" keyboard keys (e.g. arrows) generate false key events and make the keyboard somewhat unusuable. Some multimedia-keys generate the same keycodes. I suppose the lx500 kernel patch fixes some of these problems so I will investigate further in that direction.

The mouse is working quite well. Buttons 8 + 9 (above the wheel) generate button-events, the wheel works vertically, horizontally key events are generated instead of button events.

I'm quite busy at the moment. If there is some time next week I will try to go on and write down a suitable solution here or at the wiki.

silverjam · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:28 pm Post subject: So what's the conclusion?

Got Logitech UltraX keyboard hooked up through USB with evdev. xev returns absolutely nothing on the multimedia keys.

What should I do?

dmesg shows this:

Dralnu · Veteran Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1919

silverjam · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:54 am Post subject: Re: So what's the conclusion?

sg313 · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2005 Posts: 34

Hi there,

i had similar problems, on my asus laptop. After the last emerge (yesterday), all ALT+ keys stopped working.
Reverting from xkeyboard-config-1.1 to xkeyboard-0.9 worked for me.
This is doesn't solve the problem, but if you need to work (or just have to type an '@', which i couldn't),
type

Dralnu · Veteran Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1919

silverjam

frankjr · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 55

I'm having a problem with trying to get some of the extra keys working on my Logitech Wave keyboard. For instance, some of them work and some of them do not, and the ones that don't work don't show up in xev. Interestingly enough, if you go into a console outside of X and run showkey, all the buttons have keycodes, but if you use showkey -s, all the ones that don't work in X don't display any scancodes. Which is quite strange, because from what I understand from all that I've read so far, scancodes are supposed to come directly from the keyboard and are then associated to keycodes, but in my scenario the keys display a keycode but no scancode.

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silverjam · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 5:17 pm Post subject:

Hm..... Using evdev 1.1.5-r1 here....

:idea:

Should this issue be posted on kernel.org or somewhere similar?

Any ideas?