From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DxveZ-0007NJ-Mt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:49:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6RNmLd4009530; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:48:21 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (thunder.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6RNhevt004868 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:43:40 GMT Received: from orpheus (unknown [150.101.6.82]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA7949175 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:44:00 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: keys that don't create keycodes From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20050727074725.GA28360@ivanka.quashnosh.dyndns.org> References: <1121756165.22274.50.camel@orpheus> <20050727074725.GA28360@ivanka.quashnosh.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:16:16 +0930 Message-Id: <1122507976.22005.8.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b25fc8b9-5cef-4d41-8434-367e1fdb93a7 X-Archives-Hash: efc739f5c3c8b121561dd14996753baa On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 09:47 +0200, Robert Svoboda wrote: > * Iain Buchanan [2005-07-19 09:10]: > > I have a couple of them! I've tried all the usual ways of detecting > > them - xev and others that do a similar thing but they just don't > > register as keypresses in any standard way. > > did you try lineak (it's in portage)? I think there are others, maybe more > advanced. I've tried lots of programs, including lineak, but trying another program isn't going to fix it if xev itself can't even see the keypresses. It has to be a deeper issue like the X keyboard driver or something. Hence the interesting link someone else posted: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/flameeyes/2005/06/15/and_the_keyboard_lose_the_match -- Iain Buchanan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list