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Axell

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Registered: 2009-01-11

Posts: 43

USB keyboard

Hi!
I've bought SVEN USB keyboard (4001 EL), because my laptop's keyboard died. It works fine (btw, windows need special driver )) on Arch Linux without any headache. Except one thing - Scroll Lock button. This keyboard has background lightning and it turns on when I press Fn+ScrLock on windows, but on Linux neither background lightning, nor ScrollLock works. Is uppose it is driver's issue. But may be there is some way to make it work, or any suggestions how to make it work...

onguarde

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Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 144

Re: USB keyboard

From the wiki,
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Get … ns_Working
http://www.linux.com/feature/118179

Try using xmodmap to see if the key events are being detected. If they are, its just a matter of remapping them.

Axell

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Registered: 2009-01-11

Posts: 43

Re: USB keyboard

Thank you!

xev showed that ScrollLock is recognised. The last thing is to make keyboard turn on the background lightning...

Axell

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Registered: 2009-01-11

Posts: 43

Re: USB keyboard

Well, it was easy The thing is that background lightning works wneh the ScrollLock LED is turned on...
This helped me to turn on ScrollLock key:

xmodmap -pm // find unused modX
xmodmap -e 'add modX Scroll_Lock'

Thanks!