Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:11:30 +0200 From: "Bruce Alcock" <bruce.alcock@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Roland Smith" <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: Logitech G15 Message-ID: <a028ad770710141111t3c7bf74fm6832918f736c43b4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071014100539.GA72686@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <a028ad770710140216sbb9d10chde28b715525228fb@mail.gmail.com> <20071014100539.GA72686@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On 10/14/07, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> 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
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