Keymapping hal/fdi

[David Woodfall]

On (13:47 25/04/11), David Woodfall <dave at dawoodfall.net> put forth the proposition:
>On (09:34 25/04/11), Dirk Wallenstein <halsmit at t-online.de> put forth the proposition:
>>On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 10:48:02AM +0100, David Woodfall wrote:
>>>On (02:25 24/04/11), David Woodfall <dave at dawoodfall.net> put forth the proposition:
>>>>Hi, I've have a usr9600 usb phone, which is an extra keyboard. I have
>>>>setup a 20-phone.fdi for it and set layout etc. Now I'm trying to map
>>>>keys 1-0 to keypad 1-0 but I'm having problems with that.
>>>>
>>>>lshal shows the mapping but it looks like the hex codes are the wrong
>>>>ones. I got the codes with xev. This is the mapping section:
>>>>
>>>>       <append key="input.keymap.data" type="strlist">0030:KP0</append>
>>>>       ...
>>>>       <append key="input.keymap.data" type="strlist">0039:KP9</append>
>>>>
>>>>Is xev the right tool to get these codes? Any ideas why this isn't working?
>>>>
>>>>Cheers
>>>>
>>>>Dave
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Don't look back, the lemmings are gaining on you.
>>>
>>>Not having any luck with this so I tried the old xorg.conf way:
>>>
>>>Section "InputDevice"
>>>        Identifier  "Keyboard1"
>>>        Driver      "evdev"
>>>        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>>>        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Yealink_Network_Technology_Ltd.  _VOIP_USB_Phone-event-if03"
>>>        Option      "event_key_remap" "10=87, 11=88, 12=89, 13=83, 14=84, 15=85,    16=79, 17=80, 18=81, 19=90"
>>>        Option       "XkbLayout"  "us"
>>>        Option       "XkbRules"   "xorg"
>>>EndSection
>>>
>>>This also doesn't work. I got the event_key_remap option by googling.
>>>I couldn't really find anything else on this. It's a pit xmodmap
>>>doesn't support multiple devices.
>>
>>xkbcomp can since 1.2.1, and switching keys is easy:
>>
>>Get the keymap:
>> xkbcomp -i <deviceid> $DISPLAY keymap.xkb
>>
>>Edit keymap.xkb: Exchange the keycodes at the top. For example switch:
>> <KP3> = 89;
>> <AE03> = 12;
>>
>>Install the keymap:
>> xkbcomp -i <deviceid> keymap.xkb $DISPLAY
>
>I'm finding that regardless of deviceid it changes my main keyboard as
>well as the phone.
>
>I got the device id from xinput list and used
>
>xkbcomp -i 8 keymap.xkb :0.0

Ah it looks like it works with xkbcomp 1.2.1 as you said. Sorry I just
noticed that I had 1.1.1.

Seems to be good now. Thanks for your help.

Dave

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>>--
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>> Dirk
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