[gentoo-user] Keys not getting detected

[gentoo-user] Keys not getting detected

[anand kumar]

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Hi,
    I recently changed to Gentoo. I have a keyboard from hp with all
the new multimedia keys on it. I tried configuring them but showkey
doesnt recognise some of the keys. Is there any way to resolve this.
Previously these keys were getting recognized and i was using FC. Is
there a link with the distrib im using or anything like that
...............

uname -a gives
Linux virtual.unreal 2.6.16-gentoo-r6 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun 11
15:48:49 IST 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel
GNU/Linux

and contents of /proc/bus/devices is
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0
H: Handlers=kbd
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3802078 f840d001 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

and anyway to make the extra leds glow ..........

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Re: [gentoo-user] Keys not getting detected

[Raymond Lewis Rebbeck]

On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:19, anand kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>     I recently changed to Gentoo. I have a keyboard from hp with all
> the new multimedia keys on it. I tried configuring them but showkey
> doesnt recognise some of the keys. Is there any way to resolve this.
> Previously these keys were getting recognized and i was using FC. Is
> there a link with the distrib im using or anything like that
> ...............
>
> uname -a gives
> Linux virtual.unreal 2.6.16-gentoo-r6 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun 11
> 15:48:49 IST 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel
> GNU/Linux
>
> and contents of /proc/bus/devices is
> I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
> N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
> P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
> S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0
> H: Handlers=kbd
> B: EV=120013
> B: KEY=4 2000000 3802078 f840d001 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
> B: MSC=10
> B: LED=7
>
> and anyway to make the extra leds glow ..........

Some of the keys may not have keycodes assigned to their scancodes. You'll 
need to use 'setkeycodes' to assign keycodes to them. Have a look at the man 
page.

I'm pretty sure that your logs will contain messages telling you about keys 
without scancodes so checkout vt12 as you're pressing the keys.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Keys not getting detected

[louis brazeau]

On 6/13/06, anand kumar <anandr86@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>     I recently changed to Gentoo. I have a keyboard from hp with all
> the new multimedia keys on it. I tried configuring them but showkey
> doesnt recognise some of the keys. Is there any way to resolve this.
> Previously these keys were getting recognized and i was using FC. Is
> there a link with the distrib im using or anything like that
---snip---

I use linEAK with my Logitech keyboard. I know that LinEAK supports
some HP keyboard. Check it out at :

  http://lineak.sourceforge.net/


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Re: [gentoo-user] Keys not getting detected

[anand kumar]

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I tried getting their scancodes with 'showkey -s' but there was no response
and atkbd.c did not log any message in dmesg. I tried 'modprob evdev' and
followed it with
'cat /dev/input/event0' there i did get some dump on the terminal ..........

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