A4Tech Gaming Keyboard Macro Keys

[iKazmi]

Hey everyone,

A bit of background:
I purchased an A4Tech Bloody B318 (https://www.bloody.com/en/product.php?pid=11&id=129) and while the basic keyboard works like a charm, the macro keys aren't even being detected.

Things I've Tried:

1. Went to KDE's built-in shortcut manager and tried setting one of the macro keys as a shortcut for Clementine. No dice, the key press wan't detected.
2. Checked with Xev if the key presses were being registered, no dice. Key presses are not being registered.
3. Tried with screenkey, same story. Key presses are not being registered.
4. Tried installing polychromatic from ppaolychromatic/stable which failed because, well, its meant for Razr hardware and I don't have Razr hardware.

Any help/pointers will be highly appreciated. I am not a new user and I have been using Linux for a very long time (since before Ubuntu was released) and playing with config files is not a problem. The only problem is, in this particular case, I have no idea which config files to play with. Is there any way to check if the keys have been disabled on the hardware side because of missing drivers etc?

[oshunluvr]

In konsole;

sudo showkey

If you get no return, you're probably out of luck unless you can find a driver.