On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 23:04 +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday 30 July 2006 19:56, Jurgen Kramer wrote: > > The Apple bluetooth keyboard works just beautifully with Fedora and the > > hidd daemon. Most keys work but unfortunately some of the special keys > > don't even seem to emit a key code (tested with xev). > > I don't know if xev tests the keyboard correctly, but my recommendation is > showkey. First, exit X (i guess you should do a 'telinit 3'...), login to a > terminal, and type 'showkey -s'. Thanks, I forgot about showkey. > > Afer that, any key you press (or release) on the keyboard should be > identified, as seen by the kernel. If your keys do not work here, they are > not seen by the kernel, and there might be problems enabling them. > If they work, what you see are their scancodes. > > The program ends itself automatically ten seconds after the last keyrelease, > and gives you back the control of the keyboard... :-) > > Then start 'showkey', without any options. Test again. If the keys work, each > key is assigned the keycode, printed on the screen. If not, then the key is > not assigned the keycode, and you need to configure it. Unfortunately the extra multimedia keys do not emit a keycode :( > > Any idea how can I enable those extra keys? > > I recommend reading the docs, namely: > > man showkey, man setkeycodes, man keymaps, man loadkeys, man dumpkeys, > etc. :-) Hmm, setkeycodes and friends only seem to work the the keys acctually produce a keycode... > How to enable them in X is another story, and how to assign to them functions > such as "open xmms, start playing the song, turn off shuffle, and feed my pet > dog" is yet another story. ;-) > > Best regards, :-) That is the easy part ;-)...back to the driver. Thanks! > Marko > >
