On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 15:23, Celti <celticmadman@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 15:19, Andre Ramaciotti <andre.ramaciotti@gmail.com> wrote:
Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch@gmail.com> writes:
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:34, Andre Ramaciotti <andre.ramaciotti@gmail.com> wrote:
as in "they don't show any keycode on 'xev' or 'showkey'".
It sounds like those keys are broken. It should be sending something. Is it old?
It's barely used. I don't think the keys are broken, most probably, these keys send the "I've been pressed" signal in a non-standard way (you know, it's Microsoft, it wouldn't surprise me at all). I suspect this because this keyboard comes with an installation CD, which probably contains some kind of special driver (for Windows and Mac OS X only).
Likely they don't have a kernel mapping, so X doesn't even see them. You'll need to get their scancodes with `showkeys`, and map them to keycodes with `setkeycodes`, while out of X.
~celti
Er, sorry, I'm blind. You said you used showkey. Did you try it with '-s'?