[arch-general] Microsoft keyboard and unworking keys

[Celti]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 15:23, Celti <celticmadman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 15:19, Andre Ramaciotti
> <andre.ramaciotti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch at gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:34, Andre Ramaciotti
>>> <andre.ramaciotti at 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'?