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New keyboard
Posted by fsateler on Tue 3 Apr 2007 at 01:53
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I've recently been given a new keyboard, an EZKey EZ-7000. This looks like a nice keyboard (yeah I like lots of buttons), but I haven't got it working completely yet. I managed to get most buttons working, but I seem to have lost the function keys (fortunately I still have F1 and F7 (actually F6 sends a F7), so I can switch to at least one console and back to X). I've been trying to find out how to map the keyboard keys to X keys, and haven't had any luck. It seems like xkb is the way to go, although it seems like it might be a full year before I even understand what the hell I am supposed to modify/create to get it working.

PS: I just now discovered that this keyboard wasn't that good after all: to make some "shortcuts" it assigned several keys different values than usual: so pressing F2 will get a CTRL+N sent instead, which is the default for bold typeface in windows+spanish (which is the drawing on top of the key), pressing F7 will send CTRZ+Z, which is the undo combo... damn keyboard, I think I'll have to ditch it unless I somehow manage to override the behaviour.
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#1
Re: New keyboard
Posted by Anonymous (86.12.xx.xx) on Tue 3 Apr 2007 at 11:10
i got sick of spending dosh on a new keyboard every 8+ months so last year i finally splashed out and got one of these http://daskeyboard.com/ . Haven't looked back since :)

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Re: New keyboard
Posted by fsateler (200.83.xx.xx) on Tue 3 Apr 2007 at 18:46
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The thing is I want a keyboard with extra keys: I find myself using repeatedly the keyboard to change songs, volume, firing programs, and other stuff. So while the das kb may be good, it doesn't meet my requirements.
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Felipe Sateler

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Re: New keyboard
Posted by mcortese (213.70.xx.xx) on Wed 4 Apr 2007 at 17:30
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My keyboard has two working modes: normal mode and enhanced mode. The latter has, like yours, weird remapping of the F-keys and also NumLock is remapped to the Euro sign (unbelivable)!

I can switch between the two modes with a special key on the top of the keyboard. No need to mention that I never use the enhanced mode! The only bad thing is that at boot, it starts in enhanced mode and I cannot figure out how to switch it via software.

M.

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Re: New keyboard
Posted by fsateler (200.83.xx.xx) on Wed 4 Apr 2007 at 19:14
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Wow, that's something I didn't realize. There is indeed a button for remapping this thing. Now I don't need to throw it away :). Now, it will be useful to find a way of setting the mode via software.
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Re: New keyboard
Posted by mcortese (206.19.xx.xx) on Wed 11 Apr 2007 at 17:42
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I have a Windows driver that does exactly that. Who can do some reverse engineering? :-)

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