Thursday 17 May 2012

The Tecra M7 Keyboard



A pc105 keyboard is a standard 102 key keyboard + Windows keys (L+R) and the right Menu key.
The UK Tecra M7 keyboard is approximately a pc105 keyboard (
the numeric keypad being activated by the Fn key) with no right Windows key and with additional keys: Shortcut 1; Shortcut; 3 Zoom keys; and various ACPI functions.

In addition, the Tecra M7 has 5 buttons on the screen bezel for use in tablet mode: screen; person; lock; rotate/cancel; and an up/down/left/right/enter joystick.

Some of the bezel keys work, but not the screen or person keys. Additionally, the zoom keys and the shortcutkeys next to the keyboard don't function.

Keyboard devices
xinput indicates that the keyboard devices are:
  • Virtual core XTEST keyboard
  • Power button
  • Video bus
  • Power button
  • AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
  • Toshiba input device
Using the KeyTouch Editor, we find that the Zoom keys come from the "Toshiba input device", the remaining keys (presumably) coming from the "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard".
 
However, KeyTouch itself is not available on Ubuntu 12.04 - the version of Linux under consideration so KeyTouch cannot be used to program the zoom keys.

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