Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-11-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Mick schrieb: On Wednesday 04 November 2009 22:38:40 Willie Wong wrote: As you can see, keycodes 174 annd 176 are volumes up and down, 160 is the mute button, 164, 162 are stop and play/pause, 144 and 153 are REW and FF, which I doubled up with meta keys to get other features. 223 is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-11-05 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 22:38:40 Willie Wong wrote: As you can see, keycodes 174 annd 176 are volumes up and down, 160 is the mute button, 164, 162 are stop and play/pause, 144 and 153 are REW and FF, which I doubled up with meta keys to get other features. 223 is the screen saver

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-11-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:23:56AM +0100, Penguin Lover Stefan G. Weichinger squawked: Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: I still get no output/event for those upper seven keys ... oh my. At least I got a cleaned up xorg.conf for now ;-) It ain't that important although I would like to see

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: I still get no output/event for those upper seven keys ... oh my. At least I got a cleaned up xorg.conf for now ;-) It ain't that important although I would like to see them working, it's a bit hard to understand that issues like this don't just work as well.

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-10-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Albert Hopkins schrieb: I'm going to guess that the keyboard driver or something is interfering with the evdev driver? Or you don't have proper evdev support in the kernel? Or is your xorg.conf telling X to use a different driver? I don't have access to a Gentoo machine right now, but when

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:21 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Not that it is XINPUT that is driving my keyboard, not Keyboard1. So I'm guessing it's the X config. Might be. Do you have any keyboard section in xorg.conf? I assume I could get rid of xorg.conf at all but whenever I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-10-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Albert Hopkins schrieb: I'm using evdev with hal. I'm told if you use this combination you shouldn't have any input devices in xorg.conf. In fact I don't even have an xorg.conf in either my Gentoo or Fedora machines and they both work fine. YMMV. Nice for you. I just gave that a try and

[gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-10-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Got myself a Lenovo keyboard ... a ThinkPlus Enhanced Performance USB Keyboard wow, it looked much better online than it feels now ... *sigh* I want to use that keyboard with Gnome (2.26 right now). I googled how to use the multimedia-keys already, seems as if I have to face some serious

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-10-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 17:42 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Got myself a Lenovo keyboard ... a ThinkPlus Enhanced Performance USB Keyboard wow, it looked much better online than it feels now ... *sigh* I want to use that keyboard with Gnome (2.26 right now). I googled how to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-10-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Albert Hopkins schrieb: GNOME has a settings for keyboard shortcuts. Usually you just have to assign an even to a key if it's not already assigned. Sure, I tried that but those keys don't generate an event there (within gnome-keybinding-properties). I use the evdev managed keyboard. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-10-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
I'm going to guess that the keyboard driver or something is interfering with the evdev driver? Or you don't have proper evdev support in the kernel? Or is your xorg.conf telling X to use a different driver? I don't have access to a Gentoo machine right now, but when I look at a similar machine