Subject: Re: logitech cordless (optical freedom pro) half-working
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 10/10/2003 11:14:10
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:08:11PM -0700, Greywolf wrote:
> My keyboard (with all the little "other" keys on it) seems not to be
> transmitting anything for all the "other" keys.  I'm not horribly
> attached to having the utility keys do anything, but the suspend key,
> the on-keyboard wheel, and the multimedia control (volume jogger, stop,
> play/pause, back, and next) would be really nice to have working.
> 
> This is a USB kb acting as my console kb; in that capacity it works quite
> well.
> 
> KB_US|KB_SWAPCTRLCAPS is the keyboard flagset I am using; is there some-
> thing else I should be doing?

Look at the probe messages, there are probably a bunch of other
usbhid functions and devices being attached.  you can get at the
events generated by these with usbhidaction(1) and usbhidctl(1)

Looking for events from the main keyboard, eg with xev(1), will
miss them.

--
Dan.