Comments on: Multimedia keyboard howto

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I have one key that even xev doesn’t respond to. Is it hopeless? Or does this mean that I need to dig around in obscure configuration files (which is pretty much the same thing)?

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

No idea Ken, I guess if Xev doesn’t respond to it simply isn’t registered being pressed at all.

By: textshell

textshell — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

If xev doesn’t show the keypresses at all, maybe the kernel is missing information about the keys (as on my laptop)
take a look at the kernel messages and man google for setkeycodes.

I hope that helps

By: Marius

Marius — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I had the very same problem, some keys are not recognized by xev. Check the comments on this blog for a solution:
http://linuxgangster.org/modules.php?name=Content&file=viewarticle&id=17

Whenever you hit a key and see nothing in xev a message is logged to /var/log/messages, using info from the log you will have to map the keycode using setkeycodes.

Marius