[ILUG] MS fancy-pants keyboard

[John P. Looney]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:15:27AM +0000, Ronny B mentioned:
> >  So, I got me a new one. Nice USB jobbie. However, it's got about twelve
> > buttons all around the top of the keyboard. And xev doesn't seem to react
> > to them.
> I used to have an "internet keyboard" which had an extra key above each F-key
> (and therefore half-size Fkeys!), plus a powerbutton (which, unfortunately,
> worked). Pressing any of the first twelve gave me a tilde, which I presume
> is default when it's not recognised. I'd expect your keyboard to also just
> send a higher numbered keycode. Isn't there any output at all from those?

 Not a sausage. Hence me resorting to xev to see what the scancodes were,
so I could get xmodmap to beat them around.

Kate

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