Apple wireless BT keyboard: how to enable those special keys?

Jurgen Kramer gtm.kramer at inter.nl.net
Tue Aug 1 16:35:08 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 22:20 +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Monday 31 July 2006 18:49, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
> > Unfortunately the extra multimedia keys do not emit a keycode :(
> 
> But do they emit a scancode? That one is important. If you can see the 
> scancode, you can use setkeycodes to tell the kernel to assign a keycode to 
> that scancode. After that, the key is well under control.
> 
> Have you tried 'showkey -s' or just 'showkey'?

Yep, I tried both. 'showkey -s' does not show a scancode for F13-F16 and
the multimedia keys :( I tried modifying the hidd driver but that did
not get me much further.
> 
> Best regards, :-)
> Marko
> 
> 
Thanks,
Jurgen




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