On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 17:42 -0400, ««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've tried a few logitech and dell keyboards in the past with extra keys. I did some searching on the internet and found a good site (something to do with X) explaining that USB keyboards often show up as two keyboards, which X will put together on the one display. (It was actually a site explaining how to use two separate keyboards, but still relevant - I don't have the link, sorry). My keyboard had a usb - ps2 adaptor with it. I discovered that I got different keycodes for the same "extra" keys when using the keyboard in usb, or ps2 (overall, more didn't work when used as a usb keyboard than a ps2 keyboard) so you could try ps2 if it has that option. Lastly, I had no luck whatsoever if the particular key didn't show up in xev in the first place. Sorry! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
