keyboard w/ extra keys

Urmane Hendrake (urmane@urmane.org)
Sat, 05 Sep 1998 23:14:12 -0500

I just got two way cool wireless keyboards, the PC Concepts
Surfboard (actually, I bought them at different times, and the
same board was also labelled the MicroStealth). Anyway, it's
one of those that has a whole bunch of extra keys/buttons.
I'd like to see if I can get them to work, but the only thing I
could think to try was 'xev', which shows nothing for those
keys. Anybody have any ideas on how to go about this? I'm
a decent C programmer, but have never actually hacked on my
kernel, other than nontrivial things like changing the mouse IRQ.

Description:
It's a wireless keyboard (with *really* nice key action - I type
fast and don't like ye olde IBM clickety-clacks) with an integrated
mouse stick and split wire with a PS/2 mouse connector and a
DB9 serial connector (although the dox mention a model w/ two
PS/2 connectors, I haven't been able to locate one). Of course,
it comes with Win95 drivers. I'm about to try getting the mouse
working with XInput extensions. What I'm afraid of is that the extra
keys are passing signals through the serial connector instead of
the keyboard connector, but the existence of a 2 PS/2 connector
points away from that ...

Sorry, I'm rambling. Clues?

-- 
Urmane Hendrake                        "Anti-wrinkle cream there may be, but 
urmane@urmane.org                       anti-fat-bastard cream there is not."
http://www.urmane.org/~urmane           Dave, The Full Monty






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