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Microsoft Natural MultiMedia Keyboard 1.0A
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12-31-2009
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$32.67
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9.2
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The keyboard is just great, I love it.
The thing is it only works as a normal keyboard in Linux. That means none of the extended buttons work.
It's kind of awkward if you aren't at home with an english keyboard because it lacks the button (which is separate on quertz keyboards)
Otherwise, it works.
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Keyboard Natural
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PS/2
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09-08-2004, 03:24 PM
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Registered: Sep 2004
Distribution: Gentoo, Ubuntu
Posts: 6
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $25.00 | Rating: 10
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2.6.3-7mdk
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Mandrake 10.0 OE
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Works like a charm, haven't had any trouble with it. Which is funny considering who makes it! What's up with that good hardware, lousy software. Maybe they should just get out of the software business altogether, and stick with what they're good at. Outsourcing hardware :-)
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09-10-2004, 04:18 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: Mandiva2005
Posts: 86
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 0
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Mandrake 10
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The other function keys can be configured.
There is --Khotkeys
There is --Klineakconfig
Both in rpm
There is enough documentation, for those who understand.
For noobs, I don't know.
I have problems with it, but will learn
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10-28-2004, 05:36 AM
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Registered: Jul 2004
Distribution: Fedora Core 2
Posts: 29
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 8
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2.6.5-1.358smp
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FC2
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Ditto what dmcmillan said. Microsoft make great keyboards shame about the software.
I'll have to get onto getting those shortcut keys going to.
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06-04-2005, 04:34 AM
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Registered: Mar 2005
Distribution: SuSE 9.2 Pro / Zenwalk 1.2 / Minislack 1.0.1
Posts: 12
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
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2.6.11.6
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Minislack 1.0.1
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Note that F-Lock is not on by default.
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11-18-2005, 04:33 PM
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Registered: Aug 2005
Distribution: Slackware 10.2 - Kernel 2.6.14.3 - KDE 3.4.2
Posts: 15
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $40.00 | Rating: 10
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2.4.31
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Slackware 10.2
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Worked right out of the box, and got the hot keys to work by using Kde's control center->Keyboard layout->then under the layout tab enable keyboard layout and select in the drop down menu for keyboard model "Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro". I then programmed all the hot keys in the keyboard shortcut section of the control center.
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01-15-2006, 08:10 AM
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Registered: Dec 1969
Posts: 0
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 0
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You can get the extra functions keys working with keyTouch. Choose "Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard 1.0" as your keyboard.
By using keyTouch every extra function key just works (which isn't possible when you use Lineak). |
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08-05-2006, 05:23 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: Arch 0.7
Posts: 41
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $33.00 | Rating: 9
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2.6.17-beyond
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Arch Linux
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The keyboard is excellent, although a bit noisy, it is very comfortable and solid, not as most other keyboards around. Sometimes having the keys so high gets a bit annoying, but its nothing to disturbing. The really long cable also is quite useful. And I got it quite cheap, comparing with what i had to pay for a Logitech that is.
On the other side, I wouldn't expect Microsoft to release Linux drivers for it, *but* above post saved my day (week, month, even my year!) by naming KeyTouch... i couldn't find any utility that detected every and each of the keys... until today! So the only complain I had about this (after more than 1 year using it) is now GOOOOONE.
I don't give it a 10, because I have to use a third party utility to get everything working... besides that, it's just perfect.
Go grab KeyTouch right now: http://keytouch.sourceforge.net/
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12-31-2009, 11:23 AM
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Registered: Jul 2009
Distribution: openSUSE 11.3
Posts: 22
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop
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openSUSE 11.2
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I've had this keyboard for years now and am very happy with it. I still haven't got quite all of the extra buttons working, but as a plain keyboard it's excellent.
I must also add my vote to the motion that MS should stay out of software and concentrate on hardware.
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