[Bluez-users] Multimedia keys (Microsoft keyboard)

[Bluez-users] Multimedia keys (Microsoft keyboard)

[Michael Alladin]

Hi,

I've posted to the group before but this issue still persists.

Multimedia keys (Media, Mail, Sleep, Calculator, etc) are not working. 
Beside that, the keyboard works excellent.

'hidd --show' reports that both keyboard and mouse are in boot protocol 
mode. However, hcidump does not show anything being sent, that includes raw 
mode.

They keyboard has F-Lock button, which is supposed to switch functional keys 
i.e. F1 becomes Help, F2 becomes Undo, etc.   When I push Flock to enable 
these functions, F-keys stop producing events as well. Press F-Lock again to 
unlock and F-keys work fine again.

Could it be possible that some special mode needs to be enabled? Multimedia 
keys seem to work in windows xp without needing to press anything.

thanks!

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Re: [Bluez-users] Multimedia keys (Microsoft keyboard)

[Sebastian Beßler]

Michael Alladin wrote:

> Could it be possible that some special mode needs to be enabled? Multimedia 
> keys seem to work in windows xp without needing to press anything.

You need to apply the kernel patch found here
http://www.bluez.org/patches.html and rebuild your kernel.

The keyboard then shouldn't be running in boot-protocol-mode anymore and
the multimedia-keys can be assigned to what ever you want.

I am still waiting for the happy day when the kernel-gurus add this
wonderful piece of code to the official kernel. Even -mm would make me
happy....

Sebastian


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[Bluez-users] Re: Multimedia keys (Microsoft keyboard)

[Nicolas STRANSKY]

Le 03/15/2006 09:04 PM, Sebastian Beßler a écrit :

> I am still waiting for the happy day when the kernel-gurus add this
> wonderful piece of code to the official kernel. Even -mm would make me
> happy....

Yes, this would make me happy too, but Marcel said once that this is not
gonna happen. It's a shame.
Here are his words:
"it is not a clean patch after all. It is a hack and this is
something that shouldn't be in mainline."

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Nico
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