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Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 14:01:25 -0800
From: Mike Erickson <mee@quidquam.com>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft USB keyboard
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* Douglas K. Rand (rand@meridian-enviro.com) wrote:
> I've bought a handfull of cheap Microsoft Natural Keyboards from a
> reseller, but they turned out to be USB only keyboards.
> 
> I've got the keyboards working with FreeBSD & XFree86 just fine, with
> the exception of the extra "hot keys". They hot keys don't seem to
> make any X events at all. When I launch xev, I don't get any events at
> all when I press any of the hot keys.
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions?

Change your keyboard type in your XF86Config file from pc101 (or
whatever it is set to currently) to something higher, and try xev again.

I'm not sure what you should set it to, but it's another knob to
twiddle.

mike


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