[arch-general] Microsoft keyboard and unworking keys

[Andre Ramaciotti]

Celti <celticmadman at gmail.com> writes:

> 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'?

Yay! It did return some key codes, though they were kind of strange,
like a single key printing '0xe0 0x5d' (instead of a single byte). Will
I have any problems because of this?