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Old 08-18-2004, 09:42 AM   #1
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Microsoft Keyboard...Help me.


Hi,
I am using a Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard 1.0A

Could you tell me the drivers to make the EXTRA keys work??

I have Fedora Core 2...with KDE 3.2.2 in 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 kernel. I donot have windows. But I have the keyboard driver CD which (obviously) does not have Linux drivers.

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Old 08-18-2004, 10:01 AM   #2
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First study if the keycodes sent by the keyboard are recognized by running xev and studying the output.

If they are recognized ok, then you can use eg. xmodmap to bind regular keys to them or xbindkeys to assign some external operations (eg. volume control by calling the mixer) into them.
 
Old 08-18-2004, 11:18 AM   #3
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Ohhhh.....its detecting a lot of keys.....xev......

But I dunno how to configure.....neither I find anything like xbindkeys in my hard disk.....

anyway, is the no clean tool with a config file, that can run in background and take my headache,........




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Old 08-18-2004, 11:23 AM   #4
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xbindkeys runs in the backround, and it has a configuration file.
If there is no prepackaged version available, you can always take one from xbindkeys upstream.
 
Old 08-18-2004, 02:08 PM   #5
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It doent have a RPM for Fedora Core 2..........

If I install by compiling the source.....Do you know of a way to completely remove it if I dont like it ??

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Old 08-19-2004, 05:29 PM   #6
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If you don't do things as root, It can't pollute your system the same way as W programs do.

To get rid of it, just kill the xbindkeys process running in the background and remove the files you downloaded, unpacked and compiled (all in the same directory).
 
  


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