Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 20:13:48 +0100 From: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and gaming keyboards (like k95) Message-ID: <20141109201348.75ac2aef@falbala.rz1.convenimus.net> References: <6917859.lnRM16i5ho@falbala> <20141109032704.63b2de9e.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sun, 9 Nov 2014 03:27:04 +0100 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> 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
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