Cherry Linux multimedia USB keyboard

[Thomas Armagost]

65 U.S. dollars. Take a look. <http://tinyurl.com/9n9dx>

Newsforge says "Cherry has released a GPL program, keyman, to
harness the extended functionality of this keyboard. Official word
is that SuSE, Debian, Red Hat, and Mandrake will be directly
supported. The keyman distribution sent along with my keyboard
included source code, making it a breeze to port to other
distributions. Let me assure you that I was able to get the
hotkeys to function despite the fact that I'm running an
unsupported Linux flavor."

<http://hardware.newsforge.com/print.pl?sid=05/08/25/1212253>

Has keyman been ported to Debian PPC and/or YDL? OS X? Does the
keyboard work at all on a Mac without keyman?

[Paul Bramscher]

Post by Thomas Armagost
65 U.S. dollars. Take a look. <http://tinyurl.com/9n9dx>
Newsforge says "Cherry has released a GPL program, keyman, to
harness the extended functionality of this keyboard. Official word
is that SuSE, Debian, Red Hat, and Mandrake will be directly
supported. The keyman distribution sent along with my keyboard
included source code, making it a breeze to port to other
distributions. Let me assure you that I was able to get the
hotkeys to function despite the fact that I'm running an
unsupported Linux flavor."
<http://hardware.newsforge.com/print.pl?sid=05/08/25/1212253>
Has keyman been ported to Debian PPC and/or YDL? OS X? Does the
keyboard work at all on a Mac without keyman?

I don't mind the keys being in German, weil es gewoehnlich ein Bier in
der Naehe auf meine computers gibt.

[B Gruff]

Post by Paul Bramscher

Post by Thomas Armagost
65 U.S. dollars. Take a look. <http://tinyurl.com/9n9dx>
Newsforge says "Cherry has released a GPL program, keyman, to
harness the extended functionality of this keyboard. Official word
is that SuSE, Debian, Red Hat, and Mandrake will be directly
supported. The keyman distribution sent along with my keyboard
included source code, making it a breeze to port to other
distributions. Let me assure you that I was able to get the
hotkeys to function despite the fact that I'm running an
unsupported Linux flavor."
<http://hardware.newsforge.com/print.pl?sid=05/08/25/1212253>
Has keyman been ported to Debian PPC and/or YDL? OS X? Does the
keyboard work at all on a Mac without keyman?

I don't mind the keys being in German, weil es gewoehnlich ein Bier in
der Naehe auf meine computers gibt.

I don't think it's mandatory:-)

http://www.cherrycorp.com/english/cymotion-line/cymotion-line_master_linux.htm
- and click on "Product Variants"

btw, it's that same word association again, isn't it - Linux+Germany?:-)

Bill

[chrisv]

Post by Paul Bramscher
I don't mind the keys being in German, weil es gewoehnlich ein Bier in
der Naehe auf meine computers gibt.

Ich trinke Bier gern.

[B Gruff]

Post by Thomas Armagost
<http://hardware.newsforge.com/print.pl?sid=05/08/25/1212253>

Hey, come on now. Surely this is taking a leaf out of the MS book, isn't
it? Catch for this:-

"The free software package includes the SUSE LINUX 9.1 Special Edition with
many programs as well as the KeyMan software, which has been specially
adapted for the Linux operating system."

Bill

[Stephen Chadfield]

Post by Thomas Armagost
65 U.S. dollars. Take a look. <http://tinyurl.com/9n9dx>
Newsforge says "Cherry has released a GPL program, keyman, to
harness the extended functionality of this keyboard. Official word
is that SuSE, Debian, Red Hat, and Mandrake will be directly
supported. The keyman distribution sent along with my keyboard
included source code, making it a breeze to port to other
distributions. Let me assure you that I was able to get the
hotkeys to function despite the fact that I'm running an
unsupported Linux flavor."

I have the UK version. The keyman software did not work on SuSE 9.3. I
have recently switched to Ubuntu Breezy and was pleasantly suprised to
find that a lot the multimedia functions worked without any configuration
on my part.

This was via a USB connection which using keyman required a patched kernel
IIRC.