Re: Multimedia Keys

["Dan Rasmussen" <dras_2001@msn.com>]

Yeah, so I tried "xev" with the USB version of this keyboard.  It gives me 
no output for the multimedia keys and the function key.  It seems a bit 
weird that a keyboard would come with a row of broken keys along the top and 
one all the way across, so don't think I can blame that...maybe some limit 
is set in a config somewhere as to how high of keystrokes to accept?

Any other ideas?

Thanks,


Daniel Rasmussen
Jabber: dhrasmus@charente.de


> From: Martin Norland <cyn@cyn.org>
> To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> CC: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Multimedia Keys
> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:50:26 -0400 (EDT)
>
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Dan Rasmussen wrote:
>
> > Yesterday I became the proud owner of a Zippy USB Mini-Keyboard
> > (http://directron.com/wk801.html).  It's small, has a two-port USB hub, 
> and
> > a bunch of multimedia keys.  The problem is that these multimedia keys 
> don't
> > work with the USB version.  A friend ordered the PS/2 version and 
> getting
> > the multimedia keys on the PS/2 to work with acme was no problem, but 
> that's
> > not the case here.
> >
> > The multimedia keys produce no output in the program xkeycaps.  The 
> Hotkeys
> > site at TuxMobil
> > 
> (http://www.tuxmobil.org/Mobile-Guide.db/mobile-guide-p2c1s8-ext-keys.html)
> > didn't reference anything that I was sure would help me, so I thought 
> I'd
> > ask here if anybody has gone through a similar experience.  I thought of
> > checking out the packages 'hotkeys' and 'lineakd' but am doubtful 
> they'll do
> > anything that acme won't (other than maybe letting one decide which 
> actions
> > each key takes, rather than leaving that up to acme's methods, whatever 
> they
> > are...)
>
> I have this keyboard - both ps2 and usb versions - I'm using the usb
> version right now and, while I don't use the multimedia keys for anything,
> 'xev' reports them as keycode's in the range of 150ish - 160ish [take a
> bit of doing to get them all out] for the buttons on the left (the
> 'option' key seems to generate no event), and the buttons on the right are
> 222, 227, 112, etc. - so, they're definitely visible events, but the
> keysym is often (0x0, NoSymbol) which is just related to looking up and
> comparing to the keymap.  Other than the option key, they all seem to send
> different keycodes - so have at it! xev is your friend (albiet *very*
> spammy, especially if you use focus follows mouse/etc.)
>
> -Martin Norland

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