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icedank
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 Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:59 pm Post subject: Microsoft 6000 V2.0 Keyboard |
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I have got this onу and it (mostly) works (just after hot plugging in instead of old ps/2 keyboard). The only thing is extra (multimedia) keys which are not working except 1 .. 5 keys (not numeric). I have spent several hours googling without any luck. I'm using evdev and when I'm doing:
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it reacts properly on normal keys, but doesn't react at all at extra keys. So, looks like problem is in kernel somewhere. Running latest gentoo-sources-2.6.27. |
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baeksu
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:24 am Post subject: |
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If there's no output from /dev/input, I don't think those keys will work in the near future. I have a similar issue with my multimedia keys (different keyboard though).
For those keys that do give something, you can get their keycodes using 'xev'. Then use xmodmap to assign values to them. For instance, I have in my ~/.Xmodmap file following lines:
| Code: | keycode 234 = XF86Back
keycode 233 = XF86Forward
keycode 232 = XF86Stop
keycode 231 = XF86Refresh
keycode 230 = XF86Favorites
keycode 122 = XF86Search
keycode 198 = XF86New
keycode 223 = XF86Standby
keycode 222 = XF86Sleep |
You can then set actions to those keys in your WM or DE.
The latest xorg (xorg-server-1.5.1) did recognize all my 'working' multimedia keys correctly without using xmodmap. If you can upgrade to that, you probably won't need to mess around with xmodmap.
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icedank
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I know about xev & ~/.Xmodmap  The problem is that xev doesn't react on them, so I digged deeper to evdev level. The very strange thing is that my friend did have the same keyboard and got all but two keys working (there are 22 of them and at least 6 are usefull) out-of-the-box. |
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wohnout
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| I have same keyboard. It worked on 2.6.25 but stop working from 2.6.26. My friend have fedora and it works with newer kerknel... |
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