[sclug] Logitech wireless keyboard and gnome problems

[David Kerrawn sclug]

Are you trying to get it to work under X or Linux? (Quote from bugs section of
setkeycodes: "The keycodes of X have nothing to do with those of Linux.  Unusual keys
can be made visible under Linux, but not under X." I'm not entirely sure how true this is.)

For the console have you tried:
	setkeycodes e02a 86

dumpkeys lists keycode 86 as
    keycode  86 = backslash        bar              bar              Control_backslash
which seems to be the key you want.

Hope this helps.

Reagrds
David.
 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk [mailto:sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk]On
> Behalf Of pieter claassen
> Sent: 09 January 2006 14:04
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Subject: [sclug] Logitech wireless keyboard and gnome problems
> 
> 
> Hi All,
>         
>         I am trying to get the REAL pipe/backslash char working on my
>         logitech
>         wireless keyboard (next to left shift key) but what I get
>         instead are <>
>         chars and the following dmesg.
>         
>         [4686370.062000] atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set
>         2, code
>         0xaa on isa0060/serio0).
>         [4686370.062000] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e02a <keycode>' to
>         make it
>         known.
>         
>         I am sure there is hard way to do this (Ubuntu Breezy) but I am
>         looking
>         for the easy way.
>         
>         At some stage, I could swear it was working fine by selecting a
>         logitech
>         wireless desktop keyboard from the gnome keyboard layout
>         selector.
>         
>         Cheers,
>         Pieter
> -- 
> 
> Pieter Claassen
> pieter at claassen.co.uk
> Tel: +31 646 112805
> Fax: +44 845 2802423
>