| Summary: | evdev keyboard driver, keycode issues | ||
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| Product: | xorg | Reporter: | Matthias Urlichs <smurf> |
| Component: | Input/Keyboard | Assignee: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NOTOURBUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 6.8.1 | ||
| Hardware: | x86 (IA32) | ||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
the 'evdev' protocol is not part of any official xorg release. you may wish to report this bug to your distribution, since they have patched that protocol into their release. |
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I am trying to use one of my USB keyboards with this input setting: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "Protocol" "evdev" Option "Dev Name" "*Multimedia Keyboard*" Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "de" EndSection Everything works, with one exception: the key less/greater/bar, formerly keycode 94, has moved to keycode 7. $ xev [...] KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001, root 0x3a, subw 0x0, time 33338310, (117,54), root:(195,131), state 0x0, keycode 7 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: KeyRelease event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001, root 0x3a, subw 0x0, time 33338310, (117,54), root:(195,131), state 0x0, keycode 7 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: Unfortunately xmodmap refuses to assign any meaning to that key: $ xmodmap -e "keycode 7 = less greater bar" xmodmap: commandline:0: bad keycode value (out of range) xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting. $