| Subject | : | USB extended keyboard driver |
| Author | : | Kim |
| Date | : | 01 Jan, 2006 on 20:02 |
| Supporting thread for the USB extended keyboard driver bounty. |
| Subject | : | Re:USB extended keyboard driver |
| Author | : | flywheel flywheel@worldonline.dk |
| Date | : | 01 Jan, 2006 on 21:44 |
| Doesn't the driver pass on the keycodes so that Win95Key can utilize them ? |
| Subject | : | Re:USB extended keyboard driver |
| Author | : | Martin |
| Date | : | 31 Jan, 2006 on 23:34 |
| Is there any specifc USB Keyboard brand/model that want to be supported for this bounty ? |
| Subject | : | Re:USB extended keyboard driver |
| Author | : | Peter.OS/2 |
| Date | : | 01 Feb, 2006 on 20:09 |
| Not intended for a special keyboard ,since most keycodes can be used in the keyboard settings of x-workplace. Peter |
| Subject | : | Re:USB extended keyboard driver |
| Author | : | flywheel flywheel@worldonline.dk |
| Date | : | 05 Feb, 2006 on 05:31 |
Or Win95Key |
| Subject | : | Re:USB extended keyboard driver |
| Author | : | flywheel flywheel@worldonline.dk |
| Date | : | 12 Feb, 2006 on 17:56 |
| I've heard that it should work, if you disable USB keyboard support in the BIOS. |
| Subject | : | Re:USB extended keyboard driver |
| Author | : | Shai robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com |
| Date | : | 11 Aug, 2006 on 14:02 |
| Hi, I think there is the necessity of a new USB keyboard driver or at least a fix to the existing one (a hack if you consider that IBM won't fix it). I recently bought an Apple USB keyboard and I'm trying to get it to work with eComStation. My BIOS supports USB keyboards but when the system starts up this support ist deactivated (maybe because I activated the USB controller???), so I needed the IBM USB keyboard driver. The basic keys work of course. The Apple/Windows keys work, too. However the F13 to F16 and sound control keys don't work, which means they don't even throw a key scan code (I use a tool shipped with Win95key to get them). I can't explain why but it has nothing to do with the BIOS - I deactivated the support and nothing changed. Interestingly it works with a Windows XP machine using the Windows standard USB keyboard driver. I get a scan code for nearly all additional keys. So it's obviously a bug or missing feature in IBM's driver. It would be nice to get it to work because the Apple keyboards lack a Print, Scroll and Pause key so it would be useful to remap the F14/F15/F16 keys. Is there maybe already an alternative driver I could try? And yes I'm already using the latest one from IBM. Robin |
| Subject | : | Re:USB extended keyboard driver |
| Author | : | warpcafe warpcafe@yahoo.de |
| Date | : | 14 Aug, 2006 on 21:21 |
| Hi all, what I'm wondering is: Concerning the apple keyboard: Maybe it's related to the integrated USB hub and the fact that it might require more power? Greetings |
| Subject | : | Re:USB extended keyboard driver |
| Author | : | rudi |
| Date | : | 14 Aug, 2006 on 23:08 |
OS/2's keyboard driver is already structured that way. That's why we have IBMKBD.SYS and KBDBASE.SYS.
I don't think so. The reason why these additional keys are not "visible" is USBKBD.SYS. This driver will map the scan codes defined by the USB specification to a standard 102/104 keyboard and injects those into IBMKBD.SYS. All scan codes for which no such mapping exists (and this includes "F13".."F24" as well as "Volume up/down" etc.) will be discarded. |
| Subject | : | Re:USB extended keyboard driver |
| Author | : | Shai robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com |
| Date | : | 15 Aug, 2006 on 14:33 |
Interesting, so it's really a missing feature. However I read about people who were able to use all special keys (and eCS supports the mapping of special keys - not just the Windows keys). I guess they had PS/2 keyboards. Does the PS/2 keyboard driver support the mapping of non-standard key codes? Maybe we could use the Windows drivers with Odin ... just kidding... |
| Subject | : | Re:USB extended keyboard driver |
| Author | : | USBGuy usbguy@netlabs.org |
| Date | : | 21 Mar, 2007 on 16:56 |
| To add to Rudi's reply: Even if the usbdriver correcly assigns a scancode and passes this on. The normal keyboard driver filters and translates those codes as well to "support" some special IBM/PS2 keyboards. While doing this it filters out keys like the "suspend/power" key. |
| Subject | : | Re:USB extended keyboard driver |
| Author | : | Kim |
| Date | : | 20 May, 2007 on 00:15 |
| This thread has been closed and will continue in the new forum. |