On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:47 AM, André Ramaciotti < andre.ramaciotti@gmail.com> wrote:
I've found something interestingly weird. The output of ls -lh /dev/input/by-id shows that this keyboard has three /dev/input entries: /dev/input/event14, /dev/input/event15 and /dev/input/js0 (?) . Event14 is the "main keyboard", where most of the keypresses result in an event. Both event15 and js0 react to only one key (one of the non-working ones). So mistery somewhat solved: it is indeed a Microsoft thing, and I'm semi-officially giving up making this keyboard work 100%. I has more multimedia keys that I'll ever need, anyway (most of them working).
Next time make sure not to buy a ms keyboard :) I replaced one a few months ago, which was from my non linux days, and worked perfectly under linux. but just out of principle, i bought a non ms keyboard this time.