Bug 1536

Summary: no events for extra keys on Dell Internet keyboard
Product: xorg Reporter: Ben Liblit <liblit>
Component: Input/KeyboardAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: erik.andren
Version: 6.7.0   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Ben Liblit 2004-10-04 23:13:55 UTC 
I recently upgraded from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2.  This means that my X
Window System changed from XFree86-4.3.0 to xorg-x11-6.7.0.

I have a Dell Internet keyboard with four extra keys: Sleep, Mail, Home, and
Search.  Under XFree86-4.3.0, all four of these keys were visible to the X
server and would generate proper keysyms when used with the following configuration:

	Section "InputDevice"
		Identifier  "Keyboard0"
		Driver      "kbd"
		Option	    "XkbModel" "dell"
		Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
	EndSection

Note the use of XKbModel dell above.  This is critical to getting the right
keysyms, and in fact that model was created in response to a bug report sent by
me to XFree86 a few years ago.

Under xorg-x11-6.7.0, the Sleep key still works but the Mail, Home, and Search
keys do not.  Event tracing with "xev" reveals that no KeyPress/KeyRelease
events are being generated at all for these events.  So it's not just a matter
of getting the right keysyms for each keycode.  There are no keycodes here at all!

I've tried changing the driver from "kbd" to "keyboard", and the problem remains
as described above.

If it matters, my keyboard is connected using the PS/2 keyboard jack, not USB. 
Nothing about the hardware or its connections has changed during the FC1 --> FC2
transition.  This is a hardware configuration that worked fine under
XFree86-4.3.0 but has regressed to a non-working state under xorg-x11-6.7.0.
Comment 1 Ben Liblit 2004-10-04 23:15:23 UTC 
Slight clarification: when I wrote above that "KeyPress/KeyRelease
events are being generated at all for these events," what I meant was that
"KeyPress/KeyRelease events are being generated at all for these *keys*."
Comment 2 Erik Andren 2006-04-02 23:03:59 UTC 
Are you experiencing the same issue with a current release of xorg?
Comment 3 Ben Liblit 2006-04-02 23:15:25 UTC 
Unfortunately I can't say whether the problem is still present, as I have not
had that keyboard for over year.
Comment 4 Erik Andren 2006-04-02 23:24:19 UTC 
Closing this bug due to inability to debug this issue without having the
required hardware.

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