What is a Multimedia Keyboard?
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Re: How to get Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard working
James Sinnamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is lineakd (http://lineak.sourceforge.net/index.php?nav=docs) > the solution? Is it necessary to have another daemon running > in order to use a different kind of keyboard? Lineak is one of many solutions. If you're using sid or using the KDE backports for woody, there is better support for multimedia support. -- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux. You can find a worse OS, but it costs more. pgp1mRlsobsL4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to get Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard working
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 04:20:37PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: > Dear Debian users/developers, > > I am uncertain about the best means to get my Microsoft Natural > Multimedia Keyboard working with Debian. > > I also need the Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard to work > with the terminals tty1, tty2, tty3 etc when I am not using X. > > At the moment I don't even have access to the function keys > so I am restricted to one virtual terminal when I am not using X. > > I checked here: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2003/06/msg00307.html > > ... but noticed that the file formats in the files referred to are > a little bit different to what is now on my system. > > Lineakd > --- > > Is lineakd (http://lineak.sourceforge.net/index.php?nav=docs) > the solution? Is it necessary to have another daemon running > in order to use a different kind of keyboard? > lineakd, hotkeys, acme and a bunch of others are good for getting the multimedia keys working under X, it won't get them working in the terminal and I am not sure if its possible. The function keys should also work in the terminal as they should be standard keys unless microsoft did something really unconventional (when setting up the keyboard for the console I believe that there is an option for a microsoft natural keyboard, but also I don't think it will give you the multimedia keys). Another way in X which is more work and won't give you the osd, but will save you running a daemon in the background is to configure xmodmap. > > TIA > > James > > -- > James Sinnamon > jps at westnet com auStralia > ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard working
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 01:20, James Sinnamon wrote: > Dear Debian users/developers, > > I am uncertain about the best means to get my Microsoft Natural > Multimedia Keyboard working with Debian. > > I also need the Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard to work > with the terminals tty1, tty2, tty3 etc when I am not using X. > > At the moment I don't even have access to the function keys > so I am restricted to one virtual terminal when I am not using X. Assuming that we're both thinking of the same keyboard, there is a 'function lock' key right next to F12. You have to turn it ON in order for the function keys to work as function keys. I'm not sure what else you want to get working? The multimedia buttons? This is the keyboard that I use at work and I have had no problems at all with it in text terminals or in X. The only thing that I don't have access to in a tty is the Play/Pause, etc, buttons on the top of the keyboard. Everything else works just fine. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: How to get Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard working
Dear Debian users/developers, I am uncertain about the best means to get my Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard working with Debian. I also need the Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard to work with the terminals tty1, tty2, tty3 etc when I am not using X. At the moment I don't even have access to the function keys so I am restricted to one virtual terminal when I am not using X. I checked here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2003/06/msg00307.html ... but noticed that the file formats in the files referred to are a little bit different to what is now on my system. Lineakd --- Is lineakd (http://lineak.sourceforge.net/index.php?nav=docs) the solution? Is it necessary to have another daemon running in order to use a different kind of keyboard? TIA James -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Usb multimedia keyboard not working
Hi guys, I got myself a usb keyboard today, but i'm having problems with getting it working. I have HID module loaded, keybdev, and it appears to be detected sucessfully, ie dmesg | grep USB -> input: USB HID v1.10 Device [USB MULTIMEDIA KEYBOARD] on usb2:2.1 I get error messages like: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:10.0-1 address 2 hub.c: new USB device 00:10.0-1, assigned address 3 hub.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (errno=-110) hub.c: new USB device 00:10.0-1, assigned address 4 hub.c: USB device not accepting new address=4 (errno=-110) and a few more wondeful: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout after each disconnect... Anybody know where to find out what this means? -- Rex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multimedia Keyboard
Hello! Is it possible to download more keyboard definition files from somewhere (.def files), because my keyboard isn't in hotkeys supported keyboard list. Thanks. Levai Daniel Scott Henson wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 04:00, LeVA wrote: Hi! Anybody knows, how can I setup a Genius Comfy KB-16M Wireless keyboard's multimedia keys? When I use Option "XkbModel" "geniuscomfy" in the XF86Config, some keys, still don't work. Look into hotkeyd and acme. Acme is the better of the two, but it is a gnome2 specific thing, while hotkeys works almost anywhere. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Multimedia Keyboard
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 01:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 01:15:44PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 04:00, LeVA wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Anybody knows, how can I setup a Genius Comfy KB-16M Wireless keyboard's > > > multimedia keys? When I use > > > Option "XkbModel" "geniuscomfy" > > > in the XF86Config, some keys, still don't work. > > Look into hotkeyd and acme. Acme is the better of the two, but it is a > > gnome2 specific thing, while hotkeys works almost anywhere. > > I happen to like lineak a bit better for daemoning hotkeys. > > Has anyone an hotkeys daemon for non-X console though? I dont think thats possible. Hotkeys needs X to do its stuff. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multimedia Keyboard
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 01:15:44PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 04:00, LeVA wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Anybody knows, how can I setup a Genius Comfy KB-16M Wireless keyboard's > > multimedia keys? When I use > > Option "XkbModel" "geniuscomfy" > > in the XF86Config, some keys, still don't work. > Look into hotkeyd and acme. Acme is the better of the two, but it is a > gnome2 specific thing, while hotkeys works almost anywhere. I happen to like lineak a bit better for daemoning hotkeys. Has anyone an hotkeys daemon for non-X console though? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Multimedia Keyboard
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 04:00, LeVA wrote: > Hi! > > Anybody knows, how can I setup a Genius Comfy KB-16M Wireless keyboard's > multimedia keys? When I use > Option "XkbModel" "geniuscomfy" > in the XF86Config, some keys, still don't work. Look into hotkeyd and acme. Acme is the better of the two, but it is a gnome2 specific thing, while hotkeys works almost anywhere. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multimedia Keyboard
Hi! Anybody knows, how can I setup a Genius Comfy KB-16M Wireless keyboard's multimedia keys? When I use Option "XkbModel" "geniuscomfy" in the XF86Config, some keys, still don't work. Thanks! Levai Daniel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
multimedia keyboard
I have one of those 'multimedia' keyboards with extra buttons to control your CD player, volume, launch applications, etc. Using xmodmap I have successfully mapped the special keys to XFree86 events: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume" /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume" /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop" /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay" /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 229 = XF86Search" /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 223 = XF86Standby" /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute" /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext" /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev" /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 236 = XF86Mail" /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 178 = XF86HomePage" Then I setup keyboard shortcuts under sawfish in the Gnome Control Center. The problem is that they don't always work! For example, if I have no windows open, they don't work. If I open an xterm, they work. If I'm using Mozilla, they work. If I'm doing Java development in Eclipse, they don't work. It seems fairly application-specific, but I expected them to work all the time. Is this possible? - Bobman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: multimedia keyboard
Patrik Modesto wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 03:48:50PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to ask if is it good idea to buy a multimedia keyboard? > > Can the extra keys be used in X as they are in windoze? (eg. slide > > volume in xmms ... etc.) > > I have some Logitech multimedia keyboard and works well with xmms. > 1) find the keycodes for the new keys > 2) make your home xmodmap file (mine is bellow) > 3) xmodmap the file > 4) bind the new keys. I use sawfish, but it should works with others WM with X 4.x you probably don't even need xmodmap, just use the following settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Logitech Cordless iTouch" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" # erik: default commented out: Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbModel" "logicordless" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection depending on exact version of logitech keyboard you might need different XkbModel (or you might still need xmodmap), /etc/X11/xkb files for more info (it looks like rules/xfree86 is the most interesting one, also check symbols/inet) erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: multimedia keyboard
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 03:48:50PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to ask if is it good idea to buy a multimedia keyboard? > Can the extra keys be used in X as they are in windoze? (eg. slide > volume in xmms ... etc.) I have some Logitech multimedia keyboard and works well with xmms. 1) find the keycodes for the new keys 2) make your home xmodmap file (mine is bellow) 3) xmodmap the file 4) bind the new keys. I use sawfish, but it should works with others WM Patrik P.S.: Nic proti takove klavesnici nemam. Klidne ji kup. Vsechny tlacitka se daji pouzit. :-) .xmodmap file: keycode 229 = XF86Launch0 keycode 230 = XF86ScreenSaver keycode 236 = XF86Mail keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext pgpi2E8u84II4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: multimedia keyboard
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 03:48:50PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > I'd like to ask if is it good idea to buy a multimedia keyboard? > Can the extra keys be used in X as they are in windoze? (eg. slide > volume in xmms ... etc.) I've got a Microsoft Natural Pro with "internet keys" (back, foward, stop, refresh, plus all the multimedia stuff and whatnot). I wrote an xkeycaps keyboard definition for this keyboard, which makes it very easy to assign keysyms to those keys. Then it becomes a question of configuring individual apps to do something useful with those keys. I find it useful to hit the 'Sleep' button on my keyboard and have it activate xlock, for example. If you want my xkeycaps patch, it is at http://locust.lcs.mit.edu/~noahm/xkeycaps/ noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgp1eVPP0LI29.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: multimedia keyboard
> Hi all, > > I'd like to ask if is it good idea to buy a multimedia keyboard? > Can the extra keys be used in X as they are in windoze? (eg. slide > volume in xmms ... etc.) > > Sincerely Mirek If it were me I would not, I found my favorite keyboard a few years ago, its made by acer: http://www.eacer.com/erkey.html i have big hands and its excellent for that, its not good for people with small hands(or maybe normal hands too) anyways, as for the keys, yes you should be able to get them to work in X, by re mapping them to do things, just like other keys. as far as if they work with the applications I think your best off testing the apps with keys like F8 and F9 for volume control, if you can get an app to respond to it then you can probably re program the keymaps to get the volume keys on the multimedia keyboard to work. but by default the keys will not be functional. I've never looked into re mapping keys so i don't know how to do it, but have seen it discussed a lot nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
multimedia keyboard
Hi all, I'd like to ask if is it good idea to buy a multimedia keyboard? Can the extra keys be used in X as they are in windoze? (eg. slide volume in xmms ... etc.) Sincerely Mirek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
