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[Braiam Peguero <313514@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Title:
  MASTER: evdev driver ignores keycodes > 255

Status in X.Org X server:
  Confirmed
Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-evdev

  package Version: 1:2.0.99+git20080912-0ubuntu5
  Ubuntu 8.10

  Keyboards can use keycodes that go above 255. See http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.28/include/linux/input.h
  These are often multimedia keys for keyboards and remotes.

  These are ignored by the evdev driver:
  gimble:~/xserver-xorg-input-evdev-2.0.99+git20080912$ grep 255 src/evdev.c 
      if (code > 255 && ev->code < KEY_MAX) {
      /* The X server can't handle keycodes > 255 anyway, just drop them.  */

  Which means they never reach X and therefore cannot be used in anyway.

  The only workaround at the minute would be to use input-kdb to remap
  all keys for an input device to values lower than 255.

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