Bug 515406

Summary:	F10/Spell key not recognized on MS Natural 4000 keyboard
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Frank Cox <theatre>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	11	CC:	itamar, kernel-maint
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Description Frank Cox 2009-08-04 05:04:38 UTC

Description of problem:

I have a USB-connected Microsoft Natural 4000 keyboard.

The F10/Spell key doesn't have a keycode according to xev.  In fact, xev
doesn't register any event at all when I press F10 with F-lock off. (Of course,
I get keycode 76 when F-lock is on.)

All the rest of the F-keys are recognized and have a keycode when
F-lock is off, with the single exception of F10/Spell.

"showkey -s" gives me no output at all when I press F10/Spell.

"showkey" alone gives me keycode 432.

The F10/Spell key is therefore effectively dead on this keyboard when the F-lock is off.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.29.6-213.fc11.x86_64


How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load xev
2. Make sure F-lock is off.
3. Press the F10/Spell key

  
Actual results:
No event registers with xev when the F10/Spell key is pressed

Expected results:
Should see an event with a scancode listed when the F10/Spell key is pressed

Additional info:
Marko Vojinovic advised me as follows on the Fedora user mailing list:

Now, how to fix the missing scancode in the kernel table is a different issue, 
since the table seems hard-coded into the kernel....

the kernel table above does not seem to have a scancode 
map of keycode 432. If that gets fixed, your key should start working 
automagically under X, and you will be able to read off the X keycode using 
xev.

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