I have a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 2000, model #1477, running on Ubuntu 16.04 32-bit with a strange issue. It has a row of shortcut keys along the top (one of the reasons I chose it), but only half of them work.
I thought the nonfunctional keys weren't assigned and just needed to be mapped, but going through the keys using showkey --scancodes doesn't provide any response. Does this mean the keys aren't sending any signal at all to the system? That seems extremely weird to me. There is a driver for the keyboard, but I wanted to find out if there was a native way to get these keys working before I started trying to wrestle a Microsoft driver into cooperating.
Here are the keys by label and the scancodes for those that give them:
(home icon): 0xe0 0x32, 0xe0 0xb2
(envelope): 0xe0 0x6c, 0xe0 0x6c 0xe0 0xec
(1):
(2):
(3):
(4):
(5):
(star): 0xe0 0x66, 0xe0 0x66 0xe0 0xe6
(- magnifying glass):
(+ magnifying glass):
(play/pause): 0xe0 0x22, 0xe0 0xa2
(«): 0xe0 0x10, 0xe0 0x90
(»): 0xe0 0x19, 0xe0 0x99
(speaker down): 0xe0 0x2e, 0xe0 0xae
(speaker up): 0xe0 0x30, 0xe0 0xb0
