[maemo-developers] N810 & FN key & X

[From: Matthew Exon]

Tuomas Kulve wrote:
> Matthew Exon wrote:
> 
>> I have a ThinkOutside stowaway bluetooth keyboard and several of the
>> keys are dead, as far as I can tell because evdev ignores their
>> keycodes.  Unlike this case, however, the keycodes that get sent are
>> under 255, so it sounds like I should be able to do this
>> HAL/EVIOCSKEYCODE thing to remap them to something else.
> 
> The EVIOCSKEYCODE is not limited to 255. I would guess that you cannot
> map them unless they are sent in the first place.
> 
> You can use the attached evtest to see what the event device is sending
> below X and you can use the attached xev to see how X sees them.

OK, you're right, it's somewhere below X: I don't get anything from
evtest for my dead keys (I'd tried xev already).

But these keys work fine for my desktop machine, so I thought this
sounded similar to your problem.  Maybe not.

Where does evtest come from?

Thanks,
Mat