[Bug 838760] Re: Support Word/Excel keys on Chicony KB-0350 keyboard

[Martin Pitt]

anatoly techtonik [2011-10-31 14:11 -0000]:
> I understand that. The question is - why do you think they are not
> correct?

I never said they weren't correct. The keymap is fine, it's just not
possible to construct an udev rule to apply it, as right now it is not
possible to identify your keyboard. The keymap can certainly not be
applied to _all_ machines/keyboards out there.

> It is not confusing, but incomplete. The app I was speaking about was
> able to select keyboard type, not language layout.

Yes, so was I. That's all in gnome-control-center.

> I can't remember installing any drivers for this keyboard on Windows
> and yet these keys work.

OK, then I don't know how this works.

Martin
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Title:
  Support Word/Excel keys on Chicony KB-0350 keyboard

Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 11.04 doesn't understand Word/Excel keys from Chicony KB-0350
  keyboard when they are pressed in Keyboard Shortcuts application.

  Using instructions from /usr/share/doc/udev/README.keymap.txt.gz I was
  able to create keymap (attached), but I do not know what to write into
  /lib/udev/rules.d/95-keymap.rules because my system vendor and product
  descriptions are empty.

  As a user I expect to see Chicony KB-0350 among choices in Keyboard
  Preferences -> Layouts -> Keyboard model. How can I add my model there
  with a new keymap? Please provide some entrypoints.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: udev 167-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  CheckboxSubmission: b346f016d264f3ef62407d5e29c198a2
  CheckboxSystem: daed2f3d6643b4a84b4520a2427f8c2b
  CustomUdevRuleFiles: z80_user.rules
  Date: Thu Sep  1 14:32:26 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: root=UUID=00b0c28b-3e0b-4bec-96ab-b0ab4604afff ro splash vga=786
  SourcePackage: udev
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-02 (151 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 04/06/2006
  dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: F6
  dmi.board.name: 8I945P-G
  dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
  dmi.board.version: x.x
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF6:bd04/06/2006:svn:pn:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rn8I945P-G:rvrx.x:cvn:ct3:cvr:

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