USB keyboards and extra keys

Zane C.B. v.velox at vvelox.net
Sat Oct 17 18:03:12 UTC 2009


On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:38:10 +0200
Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:54:40 -0500
> "Zane C.B." <v.velox at vvelox.net> wrote:
> 
> > Any one ever manage to get extra keys to work on a USB keyboard in
> > the RELENG_7 branch?
> 
> In the past, I have used hotkeys[1] from ports for this. I don't
> have that keyboard now, so I can't test if it still works.

Unfortunately that does not work. The extra keys on USB keyboards
don't result in any thing visible to xev.

Also usbhidctl does not show any thing happening on the uhid device
that is created by the keyboard.


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