Dell USB keyboard

[Israel Jacques]

Hi Henry.

After about a minute of running: usbhidctl -alrv -f /dev/uhid0 > dump, I get:
00000000  52 65 70 6f 72 74 20 64  65 73 63 72 69 70 74 6f  |Report descripto|
00000010  72 3a 0a 54 6f 74 61 6c  20 20 20 69 6e 70 75 74  |r:.Total   input|
00000020  20 73 69 7a 65 20 30 20  62 79 74 65 73 0a 54 6f  | size 0 bytes.To|
00000030  74 61 6c 20 20 6f 75 74  70 75 74 20 73 69 7a 65  |tal  output size|
00000040  20 31 20 62 79 74 65 73  0a 54 6f 74 61 6c 20 66  | 1 bytes.Total f|
00000050  65 61 74 75 72 65 20 73  69 7a 65 20 31 20 62 79  |eature size 1 by|
00000060  74 65 73 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a  0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a  |tes.............|
00000070  0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a  0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a  |................|
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There is an option in the BIOS that allows me to disable BIOS support
for USB. I'll reboot and report back on whether or not it makes a
difference.

As with usbhidaction, I'm assuming I would need to be able to get
output from /dev/uhid0 in order to write a configuration file.
Correct?

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Henry Hu<henry.hu.sh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Israel Jacques<mrkotfw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have the following in my ~/.xmodmaprc:
>>
>> keycode 234 = XF86Back
>> keycode 233 = XF86Forward
>> keycode 232 = XF86Stop
>> keycode 231 = XF86Refresh
>> keycode 130 = XF86HomePage
>> keycode 236 = XF86Mail
>> keycode 198 = XF86MyComputer
>> keycode 161 = XF86Calculator
>> keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute
>> keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop
>> keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev
>> keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext
>> keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay
>> keycode 129 = XF86AudioMedia
>> keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
>> keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
>>
>> And it doesn't work with my WM.
> If the messages of the multimedia keys are sent through the uhid
> device, then you need to write a configuration file for the
> usbhidaction, specify the keys and corresponding commands, and run
> usbhidaction when keyboard inserted.
> Can you see anything when a key is pressed with usbhidctl -alrv -f /dev/uhid0 ?
>>
>> Thanks for the tip.
>>
>> So far, I ran (as root):
>>
>> # usbhidctl -anrv -f /dev/uhid0
>> Report descriptor:
>> Total   input size 0 bytes
>> Total  output size 1 bytes
>> Total feature size 1 bytes
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Henry Hu<henry.hu.sh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Dieter<freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com> wrote:
>>>>> My question is, how do I go about writing a userland application to
>>>>> access the extra buttons? Would I have to use ioctl(2) to poll
>>>>> /dev/ukbd0? I would like to write the userland application in order to
>>>>> map them to:
>>>>> XF86Back
>>>> ...
>>>>> XF86AudioRaiseVolume
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Can xmodmap(1) do what you need?  Appears to be in ports.
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>>> You might try usbhidaction and usbhidctl on the uhid device.
>>> Once I was using a microsoft keyboard, and I hacked the programs a
>>> bit, and wrote a configuration file for usbhidaction, and finally I
>>> can use the multimedia keys.
>>> These programs have problems parsing the Report ID field. You might
>>> have to refer to the HID standard to modify them a bit.
>>>
>>> Good luck.
>>>
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