Bug 204052

Summary:	Yast2 module to set up multimedia keyboards (make keycodes known to kernel)
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Forgotten User QFh0D9oMPg <forgotten_QFh0D9oMPg>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Marcus Schaefer <ms>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	andreas.hanke, jsuchome
Version:	Alpha 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Forgotten User QFh0D9oMPg 2006-09-07 04:05:07 UTC

(Note in advance: This is not really necessary, but a "would be nice to have" report)

For serveral years now now I use a Logitech Cordless Desktop Keyboard. However, still about half of the multimedia keys cannot be used in my desktop environment, as they aren't even recognized by the kernel.Problem is even worse for some cheap no-name keyboards.

This can be handled quite easily with a few shell commands (see e.g. in German at http://www.schatenseite.de/multimedia-tasten.html).

However, it would be quite nice to have the Yast2 keyboard module handle such a custom keyboard layout (and a corresponding boot script), in order to do this job graphically.

Comment 1 Alexey Eremenko 2006-09-08 12:24:08 UTC

Plz add it. 

It will help us a LOT.

Comment 2 Thomas Fehr 2006-09-11 14:48:34 UTC

Reassigned to maintainer of yast2 keyboard module.

Comment 3 Jiří Suchomel 2006-09-11 14:52:47 UTC

Marcus, it's for you I think.

Comment 4 Marcus Schaefer 2006-09-14 13:47:17 UTC

Hmm, I think there is more work to do:

1) keycodes must be mapped in the kernel
   atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x91 on sa0060/serio0).
   atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e011 '

   --> don't know how to handle that correctly

2) X11 needs to be enhanced with multimedia XKB keymaps. Some time ago
   I made a map for one keyboard. There are many many new maps and I'm
   pretty sure one fits your needs BUT: they need to be selected manually
   sax provides a list in the keyboard dialog to do this. 

   --> x11 xkb issue

Stefan what do you think ?

Comment 5 Stefan Dirsch 2006-09-14 16:25:08 UTC

Looks like a duplicate of Bug #159807.

Comment 6 Forgotten User QFh0D9oMPg 2006-09-16 13:18:31 UTC

Questions:
 
1) I just wanted to use the "manual" setkeycodes-version. But where are the "atkbd.c: Unknown key..." error messages going nowadays? No longer to /var/log/messages?

2) How about solving this issue by offering user-provided SetKeyCodes- and corresponding XKB-Maps on the OpenSUSE web page?

Comment 7 Marcus Schaefer 2006-09-21 12:21:08 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 159807 ***