RE: Bug#594089: keyboard-configuration: caps lock keycode problem

[H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>]

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 12:25 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>> 
>> I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c30a Version=0110
>> N: Name="Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard"
>> P: Phys=usb-0000:00:13.0-2/input0
>> S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb5/5-2/5-2:1.0/input/input9
>> U: Uniq=
>> H: Handlers=kbd event2
>> B: EV=120013
>> B: KEY=1000000000007 ff800000000007ff febeffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe
>> B: MSC=10
>> B: LED=1f
>> 
>> I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c30a Version=0110
>> N: Name="Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard"
>> P: Phys=usb-0000:00:13.0-2/input1
>> S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb5/5-2/5-2:1.1/input/input10
>> U: Uniq=
>> H: Handlers=kbd mouse2 event3
>> B: EV=17
>> B: KEY=fffffffffffff f8403340000 60d8fafd01d008 1f000000000000 0
>> B: REL=103
>> B: MSC=10
>> 
>
>
> Hmm, this keyboard registers 2 input devices... I wonder, if you press
> CapsLock/Favories and RightShift/Previous and monitor both event devices
> with evtest - will it report events on both devices at once?

I haven't really been following this thread but I think the two input devices
is normal if the keyboard has multi-media keys.  All the "extra" keys show up
as a separate input device.

You might get the CapsLock and RightShift events on one device and the Favorites
and Previous events on the other.

Hartley