Microsoft keyboards

[Denny Figuerres]

Not sure if this will help or not:
I have a USB MS keyboard, when I first got it I had it connected via the
PS/2 port and some keys did not work.
Then I connected it via USB and they worked.
I *THINK* that the MS drivers process some of the "Keys" not as 101/105
"Keystrokes" but as device commands or as a second data stream.
Like having a game pad for example; if that's right then someone would have
to create a driver for Linux that handled all the keys...

Some of them work due to the nature of the IBM 101/105 keyboard design...
In the early days there were a bunch of scan codes that were not in use and
keyboards have started to use them for different things, but if you fill up
the limits of the standard map of scan codes then you have to add more keys
in a way that standard 101/105 keyboard logic can't see.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dylan Parry
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 1:35 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Microsoft keyboards
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have one of those keyboards that has loads of extra buttons on it, and I
> have managed to install it along with Lineak to handle the key presses for
> most of the buttons; however some of them don't seem to do anything when I
> press them and don't want to register when I test them in xev.
> 
> I think the problem is something to do with the configuration in the
> xorg.conf file, but I am not sure what to change it to. I am using a
> Microsoft Wireless Desktop Elite Keyboard, and the contents of the
> xorg.conf file are below:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>          Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>          Driver      "keyboard"
>          Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>          Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
> EndSection
> 
> I tried setting the driver to Microsoft, just to see if that would work,
> but it ended up making my machine unbootable (which took me a while to
> learn how to fix!) so I am at a total loss as to how to get the remaining
> few buttons to work...
> 
> Ideas anyone?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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