[arch-general] Microsoft keyboard and unworking keys

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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:47 AM, André Ramaciotti <
andre.ramaciotti at 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.