[gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

["Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at>]

Got myself a Lenovo keyboard ...

a "ThinkPlus Enhanced Performance USB Keyboard"

wow, it looked much better online than it feels now ... *sigh*

I want to use that keyboard with Gnome (2.26 right now).

I googled how to use the multimedia-keys already, seems as if I have to
face some serious key-logging and hacking around to get those working
(no, nothing usable on that funny CD).

Some of them work (volume, internet-keys to the left), only the 7 keys
on top miss. I don't actually NEED them, but as I PAID them .... you
know ... ;-)

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Just before I start hacking myself, I want to ask you if maybe someone
has already gone through this and is willing to share ...?

Sorry if I sound lazy, actually I am already getting a bit tired of
hacking stuff like that everytime I get a new piece of hardware.

--> for reference:

# cat /proc/bus/input/devices

[...]

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=04b3 Product=301b Version=0110
N: Name="Lite-On Technology USB Productivity Option Keyboard( has the
hub in # 1 )"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.1-1.1/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event1
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=1000000000007 ff9f207ac14057ff febeffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=1f

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=04b3 Product=301b Version=0110
N: Name="Lite-On Technology USB Productivity Option Keyboard( has the
hub in # 1 )"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.1-1.1/input1
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event2
B: EV=13
B: KEY=ff 2000000 3878d8000001 e000000000000 0
B: MSC=10

[...]

The part in my xorg.conf (googled that one):


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen          0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard1" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "evdev"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/event1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard1"
    Driver         "evdev"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/event2"
EndSection


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Thanks a lot for any help on this, Stefan