multi-media keyboard

[choasforages]

ok, so i was at a place like sam's club, and i found this yahoo internet keyboard fo like 17 bucks, i bought it since i was trying to move all my input periphials to usb. so i get it home and it works, it even acts as an unpowered usb hub, great for my new intellimouse/*it cost like 20 bucks and it works almost perfect*/ now, is their any sort of xmms plugin that will use the play/paue, forward backard, stop, volum up, volum down, mute keys. cuase i really don't want to write one

[creedon]

quote:Originally posted by choasforages:
ok, so i was at a place like sam's club, and i found this yahoo internet keyboard fo like 17 bucks, i bought it since i was trying to move all my input periphials to usb. so i get it home and it works, it even acts as an unpowered usb hub, great for my new intellimouse/*it cost like 20 bucks and it works almost perfect*/ now, is their any sort of xmms plugin that will use the play/paue, forward backard, stop, volum up, volum down, mute keys. cuase i really don't want to write one

I've got a wireless keyboard that has just about the same options yours does.  I'm using it with Debian and Libranet, but I haven't tried to get all the bells and whistles going on it.  It works well enough for me, but I think you might be looking at a litle script writing if you want to enable all the functions on yours.

[choasforages]

ive played with it, and im pretty sure it would be much more then a simple script. and is there any X-window mouse driver that supports a five button mouse and the scroll wheel

[choasforages]

i do have to say though, that the $15 game pad that i bought is pretty nice. im going to be using it with emulaters and such.

[creedon]

quote:Originally posted by choasforages:
ive played with it, and im pretty sure it would be much more then a simple script. and is there any X-window mouse driver that supports a five button mouse and the scroll wheel

That's what I'm using; I just use the conventional PS2 mouse settings; I haven't tried to configure the scroll wheels, I'm given to understand that it can be done; I DO know there's a website for configuring wheel mice; do a Google search for Wheel Mice for Linux and see what you find- remember, Google is your friend!

[SpeeDFreaK]

For all of your extra buttons (no wheels, etc), you could try getting the scancodes for them. The program comes with linux but I don't remember what it is at this moment. Then you take those keycodes and put them into a file for your keyboard. I think that the file is under /etc/xkb or /etc/X11/xkb...it has something to do with xkb. I tried this once but didn't get too far. Search google for "linux keyboard config" or something along those lines.

[voidmain]

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Hardware/Configuring_the_Intellimouse_Explorer_in_XFree86.html
http://koala.ilog.fr/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/

The above are probably Intellimouse specific but you can use the mouse wheel on about any mouse. You have to change the protocol to the right one.  Note the one used for the IntelliMouse will not likely be the one you need for a mouse other than the IntelliMouse.  Just do a little google searching. Plenty of info out there. I had no problem getting my mouse wheel working a while back..

[ September 08, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[choasforages]

i just found a great site for any multi-media key board, check this out

http://www.saunalahti.fi/~syrjala/xmms-itouch/

as for scrollwheel,

change the protocal to

IMPS/2

and add
Option      "ZAxisMapping"      "4 5"

and the whole thing should look like this

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier   "Mouse0"
   # Modified by mouseconfig
   Driver      "mouse"
   Option      "Device"      "/dev/mouse"
   Option      "Protocol"      "IMPS/2"
   Option      "Emulate3Buttons"   "no"
   Option      "ZAxisMapping"      "4 5"
endSection

im talking about the side buttons on my intelli mouse. like is their any hack of konquere or moz to use them.

[voidmain]

Well obviously you will have to get all of your buttons working in X before you can have any hope of your applications being able to use them.  Now a quick search found that there may be hope for you, but I haven't done any real digging.  After all, I don't have an IntelliMouse.  

http://linux.ucla.edu/pipermail/linux/2001-December/006098.html

[choasforages]

and that configure, i was trying to talk to creedon. my current configuure is kinda odd. sorry for the confusion