[sclug] Logitech wireless keyboard and gnome problems

[Roland Turner SCLUG]

Pieter Claassen wrote:

> Ok, keys work fine in the console but not in X.

This suggests that the "Unknown key" messages are not the problem
(although they may be related in some unpleasant way) as you are using
the same hardware in both cases, without rebooting.

My guess is that you actually have a keymap (i.e. not keyboard model)
mismatch between console and X. Try the various UK and US keymaps in
Gnome's keymap selector.

> It seems to me I have two issues:
> 1. How do I measure and map the keycodes produced by the "normal"
> slash/pipe key to a slash/pipe under gnome/xorg.
> 2. How to make the keyscan code erros go away if I use arrow keys while
> num-lock is off (to be honest, this I can live with!) I am just amazed
> that everything works while X is complaining that it doesn't know what
> key you pressed?

You're definitely into the not-easy approach :-)

- Raz