Re: MP3 players? Linux? I'm not sure, but I know there's hate

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: MP3 players? Linux? I'm not sure, but I know there's hate
Date: 16:30 on 22 Apr 2005
> That's because, AFAIK, all those special keys are doing is sending a
> predefined key combo.

That's exactly what they're NOT doing, not if they're using the
usual interfaces and protocols. Plug a USB keyboard in and run a
USB endpoint or HID explorer and look at all the funky stuff they
do.  I'm not sure how PS/2 keyboards do it, but it does seem to be
out of band data and not keycodes... even when I look at the keycode
stream at a fairly low level it never shows up.

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