Hiya.. I'm not on the X.org mailing list...joined mostly to post this message, which actually originally went to Greg Kroah-Hartman first who suggested posting it to the X.org mailing list. <div style="margin-left: 40px;">just wondering, but has anybody brought up drivers for the Ideazon keyboards before? ( <a href="http://www.ideazon.com/us/" target="_blank">http://www.ideazon.com/us/</a> ) I have a couple of the merc keyboards, and for the life of me, I can't get the extended keypad to work under Linux. </div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> actually, what I'd like... and this might be something some of the coders that volunteered to write drivers might be interested in... is an interface program that can re-assign keys arbitrarily... and maybe not just keyboard keys, but mouse button presses as well... what I'd like is a program that if I have like a 9 button mouse, I can open the interface program up and just tell the system that the middle button left tilt is equivalent to a q, and the right tilt is equivalent to an e, and then presto... inside of a game like Doom3, I can use the left and right tilt as the q and e buttons to switch weapons... or I could just set the left and right tilts to be registered as left and right tilts, as their own interface commands. I would think that at a generic enough level on key assignments and device functions, keyboards like the Ideazon merc could be fully supported, without having to know the device specifics... simply hit an undefined key on the Merc, and then re-assign a different keystroke to it. For keyboards like the merc, where the extended keypad is basically the WASD pad copied and set an angle (Wolf King also makes a similar keyboard), setup could just be a few button pushes away... *** What I don't know is whether or not such an interface program could be designed under Linux to begin with... X.org documentation confuses the living daylights out of me, so I don't really know if the X.org input system could support arbitrary key re-assignments and assignments to begin with... then there's the mess of integrating an interface program with a GUI front... I can just see versions built for XFCE, KDE, Gnome, IceWM, and so on and so forth to accommodate existing desktop interface shortcuts... and somehow, I don't think that would qualify as fun to do... </div>*** After sending this I started thinking more about a possible structure for such an interface program. Again, I'm not a coder so I'm not sure... if this is possible... but what if an interface program could be designed to list basic functions (keyboard 101-104 support / mouse support)... but then feature a plugin model to extend functionality.. such as a KDE plugin that offers known interface shortcuts for existing KDE programs. Possible? or just... I dunno.. would it require a complete rethink on the structure of X.org, like Wayland?