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#1 2016-02-09 14:42:52
- nandryshak
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Corsair K90 Keyboard: volume up not working or caught by xev/xbindkeys
Hello,
I have a Corsair K90. All my multimedia keys work fine except for volume up. xev doesn't recognize it, xbindkeys doesn't recognize it. I tried booting to a minimal twm+xterm X session, because I thought maybe some program was interfering, but I still get the same problem.
I'm not sure what to do. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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#2 2016-02-09 15:30:28
- kokoko3k
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Re: Corsair K90 Keyboard: volume up not working or caught by xev/xbindkeys
How do you know the key isn't broken?
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#3 2016-02-14 10:55:13
- ceri
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Re: Corsair K90 Keyboard: volume up not working or caught by xev/xbindkeys
Hopefully you're still reading this. I have the exact same issue! I too thought the key had just died, and so I ended up binding its action to another key and gave up.
However, it just now occurred to me that the recent linux kernel I installed included a brand new driver for the corsair k90!!!
I did some testing and it seems that volume up doesn't have a scancode, yet somehow it does have a keycode of 721 (according to showkey).
Any ideas on how to procede?
edit: https://github.com/cvuchener/k90-linux-driver/issues/4
Last edited by ceri (2016-02-14 12:51:53)
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#4 2016-02-16 13:41:56
- nandryshak
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Re: Corsair K90 Keyboard: volume up not working or caught by xev/xbindkeys
Thanks for the reply and the bug report ceri! I will see if I can get around to testing that patch out today. If I do, I'll write a comment on the Github issue.
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#5 2016-02-16 14:21:10
- nandryshak
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Re: Corsair K90 Keyboard: volume up not working or caught by xev/xbindkeys
The author of the driver has fixed this issue. Thanks again ceri.
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#6 2016-02-18 02:48:14
- ceri
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Re: Corsair K90 Keyboard: volume up not working or caught by xev/xbindkeys
The author of the driver has fixed this issue. Thanks again ceri.
No worries. Did you have to compile a whole new kernel to fix the issue, or is it possible to just remake the keyboard driver?
Edit: nevermind, ended up making a PKGBUILD to add it as an updated module in "/usr/lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates"
Last edited by ceri (2016-02-20 07:10:39)
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