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FS#11543 - USB Multimedia Keyboard : Special Keys are not recognised correctly by Kernel.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Paul Robson (paulr) - Sunday, 21 September 2008, 13:23 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 13 October 2008, 14:25 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Kernel
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

On some keyboards non-standard keys create two different keyboards. I have a MS Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 ; it works fine in Ubuntu. In Arch it is not picked up by the kernel as a single keyboard, but as two ; /dev/input/event3 (the standard keys) and /dev/input/event4 (the other keys - volume control etc).

These latter keys are not picked up by xev in X11 or the command line key scan printer utility with no X11 ; they can be viewed by dumping the two input streams using od /dev/input/event3 (or 4)

So it isn't possible to get these keys working in Gnome or anything else.

Additional info:
* package version(s)

All current as of 21 Sep 08.

* config and/or log files etc.

N/A

Steps to reproduce:

Always happens ; hardware specific.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Monday, 13 October 2008, 14:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Sunday, 12 October 2008, 12:05 GMT
You might want to configure your X properly to pick up those keys, there is nothing I see we could do about it.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 13 October 2008, 14:24 GMT
perhaps you need also xorg.conf or hal backend correct for your keyboard

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