Re: Multi media keys on wired USB keyboard not responding

2019-10-07 Thread Anatoli
Erling, :) can happen to anyone. I supposed there was something like this going on as if usbhidctl shows the keys, there's basically no way for usbhidaction not to work for some internal issue as uhid devices are sort of character pseudo-devices and you can even read some keypress events with doas

Re: Multi media keys on wired USB keyboard not responding

2019-10-05 Thread Erling Westenvik
Stupid me. The keyboard is working! For some reason I don't yet understand, the usbhidaction(1) config file I created was set to "dos" by vim(1) early in the process. Perhaps I copied in something I found on the web. Anyway; hidden ^M's prevented mixerctl command executions, and moreover; when Anat

Re: Multi media keys on wired USB keyboard not responding

2019-10-04 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 03:08:54PM -0300, Anatoli wrote: > Hi Erling, Hi Anatoli, sorry for the late reply. Your answer somehow ended up in in Gmail spam. > Your problem is probably with the page name. Check it with usbhidctl -r > -f /dev/uhid0 (the value you're interested in is what is shown for

Re: Multi media keys on wired USB keyboard not responding

2019-10-03 Thread Anatoli
Hi Erling, Your problem is probably with the page name. Check it with usbhidctl -r -f /dev/uhid0 (the value you're interested in is what is shown for "Collection page"). Also, it's probably required for the actions to go on new lines in the action config. And for dubugging I'd use something like

Multi media keys on wired USB keyboard not responding

2019-10-02 Thread Erling Westenvik
Hi, I am unable to get the four multimedia keys (Play/Pause, Volume Decrement/Increment, Mute) on my old'ish USB Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600 to respond. I have tried to do my homework by reading man pages, like usbhidaction(1) and usbhidctl(1), and I've been looking at how-tos on the net [1], but