On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Martin Pitt <[email protected]> wrote:
> anatoly techtonik [2011-10-29 10:22 -0000]:
>> I want to select my keyboard manually if it can not be autodetected. How can
>> I do this?
>
> That would be xkeyboard-config, but that wouldn't help -- That needs
> correct key codes which the keyboard already does not deliver.
What are the codes I've sent earlier then? The ones that are generated
when I press Word/Excel keys?
> I'm
> afraid there just is no way to fix this in a generic way in Ubuntu,
> you can only install a rules file locally, by creating e. g.
> /etc/udev/rules.d/99chicony.rules with
>
> KERNEL=="event*", ENV{ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD}=="1", RUN+="keymap $name 0x93
> spreadsheet 0x94 wordprocessor"
If I have to add this manually then what is the meaning of using
xkeyboard-config?
> Think of it as a device specific driver. :) (That's how Windows gets
> along with these quirky devices)
But how does Windows detect my keyboard and chooses this driver if
PS/2 interface doesn't tell which keyboard is it?
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Support Word/Excel keys on Chicony KB-0350 keyboard
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