On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 15:19, Andre Ramaciotti <[email protected]> wrote: > Daenyth Blank <[email protected]> writes: >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:34, Andre Ramaciotti >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> as in "they don't show any keycode >>> on 'xev' or 'showkey'". >> >> It sounds like those keys are broken. It should be sending something. Is it >> old? > > It's barely used. I don't think the keys are broken, most probably, > these keys send the "I've been pressed" signal in a non-standard way > (you know, it's Microsoft, it wouldn't surprise me at all). I suspect > this because this keyboard comes with an installation CD, which probably > contains some kind of special driver (for Windows and Mac OS X only). >
Likely they don't have a kernel mapping, so X doesn't even see them. You'll need to get their scancodes with `showkeys`, and map them to keycodes with `setkeycodes`, while out of X. ~celti
