Need help

[Daniel Stone]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:46:33PM +0100, Uwe Konrad wrote:
> Yesterday i bought a new keyboard, an Logitech "UltraX Cordless Media 
> Desktop". I set up the x server keyboard to "Logitech Ultra-X". All normal 
> keys are working. The keyboard has some multimedia keys, these are working 
> partial. Volume up ... down .. mute ... play ... and so on are ok. But i am a 
> little bit confused about the extra funktions that are on the funktion keys 
> when i press them together with the so labeled "fn" key ! I google around in 
> the internet but there is nothing what fixes my problem. When i start xev and 
> press the above keys only "fn together with ... f1,f8,f12" has a valit 
> keycode. Some "fn together with fx" show a message without keycode but 
> with "button x" what are the mousebuttons !? So i went to console and start 
> showkeys -s. That shows me only scancodes for "fn together with f1,f8,f12" 
> other cominations with fn key together with a funktion key are dead. When i 
> start showkeys without a parameter all combinations fn key together with 
> funktion key give me an keycode ????? Here are the keycodes that are printed 
> from f1 - f12 pressed together with fn key ... 
> 172,290,256,291,260,258,259,171,294,292,293,166. So i can see that all keys 
> with keycodes below 256 are shown under xev. All keycodes above 255 are not 
> shown as keycodes with xev. But i dont understand why the commad showkeys 
> prints  no scancodes for the combinations with keycodes greater 255 but 
> keycodes ? I am very confused ...

Hi,
This is because you're not actually allowed to have scancodes higher
than 255 as per the spec: any keyboard which does is violating the spec
and quietly hoping for the best.

Unfortunately, I'm not really sure what the best solution is here.

Cheers,
Daniel
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