Bug 2841

Summary:	Keycodes higher than 255 are not supported
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Marc Dahlhaus <wraiden>
Component:	Input/Keyboard	Assignee:	xkb
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	cmsj
Version:	7.0.0
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Marc Dahlhaus 2005-03-28 15:22:14 UTC

My keyboard [ Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical ( Y-RJ20 ) ] generates keycodes
 from 256 to 259, 261 and from 336 to 347 for media keys as long as it's
attached to usb, over PS/2 all generated Keycodes are < 256.

i don't want to use my keyboard over PS/2 because it's battery powered cordless
version and i read the battery status over libusb ( KDE does it also this way )
and there is no way to get this under PS/2.

[ as far as i know there are may other keyboards that use keycodes higher than
255 for media keys ( some Dell Notebooks does this ) ]

I want to use my mediakeys under Xorg please add support for keycodes > 255

Comment 1 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2005-12-30 08:03:04 UTC

This is not XKB configuration database problem, so I am redirecting this bug...

Comment 2 Daniel Stone 2006-04-02 07:44:37 UTC

this is because of the way the Linux console keyboard stuff works.  evdev
supports higher keycodes, and is the generally-blessed Way Of The Future.

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