Slackware Keycodes! Fun to be had!

aurostre · 09-02-2009, 02:03 AM

So after the switch to 13.0 I found out that X cannot handle keycodes over 255.

Well my macbook's FN key, according to various other sites, pushes out a 464 keycode. Because of this my lappy keeps getting stuck at starting X. Returns an error telling me it's unable to handle the keycode 464. How can I remap this so that it's under 255?

Thanks in advance.

Oh, and the FN key works in console, just when running up X does it freeze and give me the error in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

w1k0 · 09-02-2009, 10:54 AM

With the new release of Xorg I stated all my old keycodes don't work and xev output isn't reliable. I had to use xmodmap -pke command to determine the appropriate keycodes. Just try it. Maybe it'll be helpful in your case too.

aurostre · 09-02-2009, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by w1k0

With the new release of Xorg I stated all my old keycodes don't work and xev output isn't reliable. I had to use xmodmap -pke command to determine the appropriate keycodes. Just try it. Maybe it'll be helpful in your case too.

That prints out a long list, which I'm guessing is a list of all my mapped keys and what the translation of them are for the system.

But what can I do with that? If my system is crashing because of a 464 keycode, how can I force my computer to get a different keycode or expand my range past 255??

w1k0 · 09-02-2009, 06:11 PM

You can try to find on that list the events you're interested in and assign keycodes with keysyms using ~/.Xmodmap file. Then you can put xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap command into ~/.xinitrc file and use these keys in X Window.

As I know Xorg is limited to 255 keycodes. I don't know if there's any method to map higher keycodes to the range acceptable by Xorg.