Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 keyboard

hi
The multimedia and shortcut keys on the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 keyboard does not work, i found this guide on the gentoo wiki, but it seems rather old:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Microsoft_ … board_4000
Is there a easier way to get the extra keys working? i dont know if i dare mess around with kernel patching and things like that

Sapphire56 wrote:Do you think you can post a little howto on how you did that?
There are a ton of good guides out there, including one on the Arch wiki, and I don't think I could do any better. If you have any problems or are confused about anything then hit me up, either on here or Jabber, and I'll try and help. As long as you have the unmolested kernel26 package installed, the worst that can happen is you have to reboot.
The one thing that did bite me and I would warn you about is having support for both the IDE and PATA subsystems enabled. I did and the PATA support trumped IDE and so all my device names changed and I got a lovely kernel panic. I don't know which is currently default in Arch but, if like me, you only have IDE drives and their device nodes are named hd* then you should probably disable all all the PATA/SATA stuff.
Oh yeah, assuming you don't want to be messing with initrd files, don't forget to compile support for the subsystem you decide to use directly into the kernel (not as a module) along with support for whatever filesystems you use.

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