Support for Logitech G11 keyboard - take 2

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Thu Dec 24 22:08:54 UTC 2009


Is there any useful support for the extended keys on the G11 keyboard? I was 
pointed at the "g15" software, which since people described it may have suffered 
from feature creep to the point where it has become one of those "before you can 
make this work you need that" endless chains, with the parts depending on 
versioned libraries and such which I find, but are the wrong version. There 
seems no configure option to just pretend the display on the G15 keyboard 
doesn't exist, after the 4th trip around the loop[1] I got off. Like many 
things, if you can get all the parts at the right version it works, but all the 
parts are moving targets.

Any other ideas? Keyboard is great, even w/o the special keys, but they would 
save me much time.

[1] g15macro needs g15daemon. G15daemon needs g15lib. g15lib needs libusb, which 
is not in the libusb rpm, but libusb-devel which wasn't available from the 
fastest repo yum had cached... Also need g15render, found two copies neither of 
which is the right version. Ran out of time to work on unpackaged software not 
on the critical path.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
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