From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 14 18:11:33 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F09A16A418 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:11:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce.alcock@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F40513C46B for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:11:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce.alcock@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so1100105rvb for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:11:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=WNMR8ac0XAQ91Y+CiCjfum393qVdNVHtjzHEfiz3TGA=; b=Dlo9b7KYV/CunOGH2l7pF1ccWUSrQw4uDW13GhIQeWTDY60hkoJDh6SMGJZJJYV7vdSi8LUn0vQizu3Ra137hRMvq556P9KsTe78+AnY+wc6EMl5ZFPXoq29vNrxoSobAycjQ/mMOv/tLhniGRwlW4AXhnpfM8JV1iLuOAyE7jA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=I+IVikQiCrlCQTSwPHTXV5aujYcBFpzYvgjFShkBio9sLeNw+AKRMY6nadC39bCBAOGofCHgR2W6iVvzeBKHw2RxoZGNe369FHKq4ao4PsdgY4jzPPugmkh6v5jQiftl4LXeX5YKxwv6QGDgfx9nuWrOlbilERVKFbopzC0XJSg= Received: by 10.141.195.18 with SMTP id x18mr2375196rvp.1192385490117; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:11:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.202.10 with HTTP; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:11:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:11:30 +0200 From: "Bruce Alcock" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Roland Smith" In-Reply-To: <20071014100539.GA72686@slackbox.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20071014100539.GA72686@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Logitech G15 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:11:33 -0000 On 10/14/07, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 11:16:31AM +0200, Bruce Alcock wrote: > > Hi > > > > I own a Logitech G15 keyboard and although the standard keys work, none > of > > the multimedia or 'G' keys do. I've googled a lot on the matter and > although > > there is a linux kernel driver, nothing exists for FreeBSD. I'm using > > 6.2STABLE RC2 and Xorg > > 7.3. Has anyone got any ideas? Even ways to go about writing a driver > myself > > would be helpful. > > When in X, launch xev(1) and give it the input focus. Now press the > special keys and see which keysyms they generate. > > Once you know what the keysyms are, you could use them to tell the > window manager to e.g. launch a program when they are pressed. How that > is done depends on the window manager, of course. > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) > > It doesn't generate keysyms...hence the problem. Thanks, should've mentioned that. Anyone got any ideas how to map keys that don't generate keysyms? Or how to make them make keysyms rather? Thanks Bruce