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Registered: 2015-07-10

Posts: 2

Bluetooth Keyboard is mapped wrong

Hi,
I am trying to use a cheap bluetooth keyboard.

So far, it's connected fine but everything beyond is a problem.

Only a few keys are responding and they respond wrong.

For example, pressing the "p" key writes a "*" on the console. Pressing "o" result in a "6" and so on. Most of the other keys doesn't respond at all.

I never had any issues with keyboards so actually I  don't know how to debug such issues, maybe you can help me.

Here is my hwinfo output:

PS/2 00.0: 10800 Keyboard
  [Created at input.226]
  Unique ID: v4Uw.qNkKwQl2yOC
  Hardware Class: keyboard
  Model: "Bluetooth  Keyboard"
  Vendor: 0x05ac 
  Device: 0x022c "Bluetooth  Keyboard"
  Compatible to: int 0x0211 0x0001
  Device File: /dev/input/event15
  Device Number: char 13:79
  Driver Info #0:
    XkbRules: xfree86
    XkbModel: pc104
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

I tried to set the keys with:

setxkbmap -device 15 -model pc104 -layout de -variant nodeadkeys

but it didn't change anything.

I can't give you any info on the keyboard itself because it hasn't got any. I bought it from amazon because it was the cheapest - no I regret that descision
Here the link: http://www.amazon.de/SellerFun-Wireless … B00QTT8JI6
It hadn't got any info-papers or driver cd's with it...

Have you got any suggestions where to start looking or what to try to get this working?

Greetz
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Hwiparam

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-09-26

Posts: 94

Re: Bluetooth Keyboard is mapped wrong

I've got a similar one (bought in Poland for about €10), mine is called Omega and I also used to have some problems with it. Actually  I was unable to enter Polish characters on it, but I believe that my solution might be helpful in some way.
What I did was to create a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-keyboard.conf and paste something like this into it:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        #MatchProduct "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option    "XkbRules"  "xorg"
        Option    "XkbModel"  "pc105"
        Option    "XkbLayout" "pl(intl)"

The above is from my PC, where I use that keyboard. In your case, the last line should contain "de" instead of "pl".
I'm not sure that it would solve the problem, but it might. And it should not do any harm

Last edited by Hwiparam (2015-07-11 07:41:28)

Martinsos

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2015-08-27

Posts: 68

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Re: Bluetooth Keyboard is mapped wrong

Have you ever solved this problem?
I also have a cheap bluetooth keybaord , and I have the exact same problem. What I figured out is that keyboard is behaving this way because it thinks numlock is turned on (although my keboard doesnt even have a num lock button). I managed to fix it by turning numlock off programmatically (using numlockx package), however it happens sometimes that keyboard disconnects for a super short moment then it again thinks that numlock is on, so that is not a solution.

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,104

Re: Bluetooth Keyboard is mapped wrong

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