Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) reached end-of-life on April 30, 2010.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed. ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313514 Title: MASTER: evdev driver ignores keycodes > 255 Status in X.Org X server: Confirmed Status in xorg-server package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-evdev package Version: 1:2.0.99+git20080912-0ubuntu5 Ubuntu 8.10 Keyboards can use keycodes that go above 255. See http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.28/include/linux/input.h These are often multimedia keys for keyboards and remotes. These are ignored by the evdev driver: gimble:~/xserver-xorg-input-evdev-2.0.99+git20080912$ grep 255 src/evdev.c if (code > 255 && ev->code < KEY_MAX) { /* The X server can't handle keycodes > 255 anyway, just drop them. */ Which means they never reach X and therefore cannot be used in anyway. The only workaround at the minute would be to use input-kdb to remap all keys for an input device to values lower than 255. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/313514/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
