Keyboard scan codes (Logitech's iNav Wheel)

metalhedd

I just bought a logitech internet navigator Keyboard.. its a very nice keyboard and thanks to the wonderful developers of lineak (http://lineak.sourceforge.net) all of my fancy buttons work... however one thing has me really confused and somewhat baffled. the meyboard has a scroll wheel which appeared to send just up and down arrow keys. so it scrolled in things like konqueror, however more slowly than the mouse wheel does. logitech's iTouch software for windows will allow this scroll wheel to perform quite a fwe different functions under windows. such as switching through your currently open programs. zoom in and out in MS Office documents. and a few other fancy things. so I Had to assume that the scancodes being sent were actually different than the up and down arrows. but i ran xev and checked it out, pressing the down arrow and scrolling down on the wheel return the exact same scancode... How can windows recognize the difference? is it possible? I emailed logitech customer support to inquire but haven't gotten a reply yet. any ideas on how i can detect the difference under linux?

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

I'm just guessing, but perhaps the section of /etc/X11/XF86Config that looks similar to this:

metalhedd · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 12:28 pm Post subject:

Thats all fine and dandy but i'm referring to a keyboard not a mouse... its an actual scrollwheel mounted on my keyboard... but it functions differently... (Like upand down arrows)

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

OK... for some reason, I thought you were trying to get 'extra' mouse buttons to work a certain way.

Ignore my last post, nothing to see there

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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

To somewhat makeup for that error, I found this. The key part is:

Sequentious · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 6:01 pm Post subject:

Does lineak have any advantages over ~/.Xmodmap ?
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metalhedd · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 8:50 pm Post subject:

actually I've decided to go with hotkeys instead. It doesn't have my exact model but I can still get everything working by adding userdef tags thats for that post on the keyboard type selection, I just did a reinstall and unfortunately i must have missed it again (unless its an option in KDE or X which haven't finished emerging yet. i found both progerams to be a little unstable, and lineaks config program isn't very nice at all, i just edited the files manually. the only major bonus of hotkeys is that I get a nice OSD.

I haven't used ~/.Xmodmap not sure how it works... I'll take a look at the a little more, maybe it will give me even more functionality, as it stands i really like the setup.

Sequentious · Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 1:44 am Post subject:

Heres the contents of my ~/.Xmodmap file