Success: Logitech Mouse with 2.6 Kernel

duryodhan · 01-10-2007, 11:31 PM

whre shud I put the xmodmap?
in ~/.Xmodmap or /etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap?

cos thats whr I found README.Xmodmap. There was no ~/.Xmodmap.

and in it what shoud I write?

Quote:

keycode <no. found by xev> = F13

IS that ok ?

duryodhan · 01-10-2007, 11:53 PM

I did xev and output for the two volume keys is:

Quote:

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2800001,
root 0x4d, subw 0x0, time 162644, (1035,401), root

1039,439),
state 0x0, keycode 176 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2800001,
root 0x4d, subw 0x0, time 162825, (1035,401), root

1039,439),
state 0x0, keycode 176 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

And ...

Quote:

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2800001,
root 0x4d, subw 0x0, time 186736, (454,292), root

458,330),
state 0x0, keycode 174 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2800001,
root 0x4d, subw 0x0, time 186873, (454,292), root

458,330),
state 0x0, keycode 174 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

Then in .Xmodmap (at both the locations I gave above I put :

Quote:

keycode 174 = F20
keycode 176 = F21

I restarted X server. I thght now KDE will recognise the key as F20 and F21. But this is not happening. It doesn't recognise it when I go to the "Set Shortcut window". Am I doin it right?

mattydee · 01-11-2007, 02:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by duryodhan

whre shud I put the xmodmap?
in ~/.Xmodmap or /etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap?

cos thats whr I found README.Xmodmap. There was no ~/.Xmodmap.

and in it what shoud I write?

IS that ok ?

~./Xmodmap is for user settings (if I remember correctly, it wasn't there for me either; I just created it) and the other I believe is for system wide settings.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that you need to give the command

Code:

xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

with the proper path to your .Xmodmap of course. If this works, then you probably want to add that command to a startup script. I have mine in ~/.kde/Autostart/start.sh.

duryodhan · 01-11-2007, 07:44 AM

hey it worked!! thanks a lot!

And here I expected a few hours of hardwork....
I guess I haven't quite gotten used to Slackware

H_TeXMeX_H · 01-11-2007, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

Well, let's see I just posted it in another thread:

put slackware CD #2 or DVD into your drive and:

Code:

su
<Enter your root password>
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/tmp
cd /mnt/tmp/extra/linux-2.6.17.13
installpkg kernel-generic-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz
installpkg kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz
installpkg kernel-source-2.6.17.13-noarch-1.tgz
cd
umount /dev/cdrom
eject /dev/cdrom

I feel some people may have been misled by this post ... sorry if you have been. So here's a small correction:

This is NOT for installing the huge26.s kernel ! If you want the huge26.s then you'll just have to copy in the files from the /kernels/huge26.s directory to /boot (saving the old file and renaming appropriately such as bzimage to vmlinuz)

Unlike the huge26.s kernel, the generic kernel does NOT have built-in support for filesystems other than ext2 meaning that you can only boot a kernel on an ext2 partition.

mattydee · 01-11-2007, 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by duryodhan

hey it worked!! thanks a lot!

And here I expected a few hours of hardwork....
I guess I haven't quite gotten used to Slackware

Cool!

Glad I could help.