On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 19:41 -0700, Sami Samhuri wrote: > * On Tue Jul-19-2005 at 04:26:05 PM +0930, Iain Buchanan said: > > It seems that every multimedia keyboard out there (especially the usb > > ones) have some or all "extra" keys that just aren't visible outside of > > Winblows. > > > > 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. > > > > I would like comments on why, and what methods, if any, may be available > > to detect such keys. Surely with the plethora of cheap multimedia > > keyboards out there, there is some way. > > Perhaps this blog entry[1] has some useful information for you. > > [1] > http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/flameeyes/2005/06/15/and_the_keyboard_lose_the_match >
thanks, that looks really interesting... -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
