From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 9 19:20:05 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8D8E6B64 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 19:20:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4882BC49 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 19:20:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XnY1q-0007jW-SV for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 20:20:02 +0100 Received: from p4fddddce.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([79.221.221.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 20:20:02 +0100 Received: from christian.baer by p4fddddce.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 20:20:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Christian Baer Subject: Re: FreeBSD and gaming keyboards (like k95) Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 20:13:48 +0100 Lines: 62 Message-ID: <20141109201348.75ac2aef@falbala.rz1.convenimus.net> References: <6917859.lnRM16i5ho@falbala> <20141109032704.63b2de9e.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p4fddddce.dip0.t-ipconnect.de X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 19:20:05 -0000 On Sun, 9 Nov 2014 03:27:04 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > That should not be a problem as long as the keys > send individual codes. You can verify this with > the X event tester utility, xev. Adding a key symbol > to a key code is done by xmodmap. The window manager, > desktop environment, or application programs can > then pick up those key symbols and cause the desired > action to happen, either natively through the program > itself, or by using the xbindkeys program to "output" > custom actions (press a key, press a key combination, > press a key sequence, start a program, and so on). To use use Bugs Bunny's words: "Hey doc, you got thing thing all wrong!" :-) I do not have the said keyboad yet. The point of this enquiry was to maybe get some feedback from other users who may already have this keyboard, so I have an idea about how much use it will be for me. I do not doubt that the basic functions will work fine. I wanted to know if the special functions (like light, macros) only work under Windows or if FreeBSD has some access to them too. > > - At least one set of macros works under FreeBSD. > This entirely depends on what the keyboard sends to > the USB interface. Yeah, I got that. :-) This thread was not supposed to be a more or less academic discussion about what kind of signals from a keyboard FreeBSD will be able to process. This was supposed to be a pretty concrete question about a certain keyboard or possibly some other gaming keyboard. You actually went into the question I was going for a little further down. :-) > I have something similar on the Sun USB type 7 keyboard > which I have gotten comfortable with, even though I miss > the feel of the model M switches. That's why I'll soon > migrate to a BOSCOM 5250 keyboard with has a 2x5 block > on the left plus 12 additional function keys (2nd row > on top) - best of both worlds. Needless to say, I have > already verified the keyboard in the way mentioned above. :-) I have no idea what kind of keyboard that is, nor could I find anything about it using duckduckgo.:-( But Mehmet found a picture of the said keyboad, so I will comment that in my reply to the other post. > Don't call my professional programming keybards "gaming > keyboards". :-) Technically, I didn't name any keyboard at all. The manufacturer came up with the name. :-P Best regards, Chris