Pupeno wrote: >What I do to get the media buttons of my crappy Logithec keyboard to work is >select one of the options that are a Logithec keyboard for the configuration >of X (instead of us or us_intl). An easy way to do that is launch Kcontrol >and play whith its settings untill you get it to work. Then pass those >settings to X, spocially if you don't use KDE. >In your case, if your keyboard is not listed, search for other media keyboards >and try them, if they don't, what you have to do is what I used to do long >ago: use xev to see what keycodes are sent by the keyboard and map them to >F13, F14, F15. etc. Then configure your applications to de something when >those keys are pressed. I recomend you to search for this on the internot, >there's a lot of information that helped me solve the problem years ago. >In the case the keys doesn't sent any codes (as shown by xev), those keys are >not part of the keyborad and I imagine the are going to be very hard to get >them to work. >Whatever happens I recomend you to send a message to Toshiba asking to improve >this situation: Making the maps for their keyboards to someone familiar whit >map making and submiting it to Xorg and XFree86 could take a day. To me, it'd >take a week at most. I think a company like Toshiba has enough man-power to >waste a week of one person and it'd would make Linux users much more happy >(companies don't get that what makes Linux users happy is not a penguin on >the box and the label: "Linux compatible" but the fact that it works without >problem). >Personally I've sent several messages to the people at Logitech, I used to be >a loyal costumer. I told them tha the lattest keyboards weren't mapped >rightly on X, and I asked them to solve the situation, I recomended them >three possible solutions: >- Get someone involved in the develpment of X to do it, which would have taken >some days of searching and a day of working. >- Get someone on the company to learn how to do the mappings and do it. >Probably a week and a half of work (I supouse Logitech has some brigth >employees) >- Or pay me to do it, I've done the first quarter of the job and I would >finish it in a week or so. >They answers was, more or less: "Get lost". >My answer is that I won't ever buy a Logitech product and I encourage >everybody to do the same. >Hope it helps. > >On Friday 01 July 2005 18:42, ��Omega21�� wrote: > > >>Hi there. >>I have a Toshiba A70 here, and it has some nice >>media buttons on the left, and I really want them to >>work on Linux. I have tried a lot. I have tried xev >>with no success, and emerged linEAK and it wasn't able >>to detect >>them. I still have Windows XP on the computer. Oh, and >>DMESG also does not detect them. Do you guys have any >>ideas? I am willing to donate some time to get these >>things to work. Im not much of a coder, but if there >>is any other way for me to help get these things to >>work, I would love to help. >>Ian >> >>__________________________________________________ >>Do You Yahoo!? >>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >>http://mail.yahoo.com >> >> > > > I do have WinXP on the computer. Is there anything I can look at in Windows that would help me here? Also, xev gave me nothing when I pressed those buttons. Thanks for the help. Ian
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