On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 07:28:14AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
| Thomas Adam wrote:
[...]
| >You should look at the scancodes in question. Have a read of 'loadkeys',
| >'dumpkeys', 'showkey'. They all have manpages.....
Unfortunately they only mention usage details. They don't cover the
bigger picture of how the system gets from a button press to the
desired results (eg moving through xmms' play list).
| >You might also consider posting some of the errors here to the
| >list. You'll find them in /var/log/messages
Here is a representative sample :
Jul 13 22:22:15 dman13 kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xa3 on isa0060/serio0).
Jul 13 22:22:15 dman13 kernel: atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e023 <keycode>' to make it known.
| They arise from pressing those wondeful Windows keys (second generation)
| such as "back," "forward" etc.
Yes.
| I will confess I'm surprised the kernel doesn't deal with them more
| silently, like it does with the first-generation Windows keys, by now.
I don't know what the problem is, but those keys worked very well with
the 2.4 kernels. All I had to do with my keyboard is install
'hotkeys' and tell it what command to run for which code. It was very
nice because it controlled xmms and the volume and I could have
programs run with the other keys (eg www and mail, but I didn't use
them). With kernel 2.6 most of them just report that error in syslog.
I'd like to see some clear documentation explaining why it no longer
works and what I can do to correct it and make all of the buttons
useful again.
-D
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