Cherry Cymotion Master Linux

[Amun-Ra]

Hello there,

I've got a little problem with my Keyboard. It's all working fine, unless I want to use the Hotkeys. This Keyboard is, at least Cherry claims this, originaly made to be used under Linux. Besdies recompiling my Kernel to use the Hotkeys you only have to install the Software and thats where it all ends. There are at least 8 or 10 packages claimed to be missing although they are installed. In a newer Version. If I use the debian 3.1 Packet. If I try to build it from the source it stops always on the same topic. xerces-c libraries are missing. But I guess it all comes down to the fact that newer Versions of these packages are Installed then the Software, latest release, from cherry is used to. I was a SuSE-User befor I switched to Kubuntu. And I realy want to go on using it, cause this Debian based System is really something. So If theres anybody out there who maybe had had the same problem but solved, pleaseeeeeeeeeee give me a hint.

[askrieger]

Re: Cherry Cymotion Master Linux

I think that the file(s) you're looking for are called libxerces26c2 and libexerces27, you probably need the -dev files as well, if you're going to install something from source. These files are in the "Universe" repositories, so you will have to activate them, if you haven't already. If you have never compiled anything under kubuntu before, you will also need to install the "build-essential" package.

I'm wondering if this isn't overkill, though. You should be able to get these keys to work in the same way that people make the multimedia keys work on multimedia keyboards: use xmodmap and friends to define the actions that you want to happen when a particular is pressed. I would google/linux for multimedia keyboard setup. It's too complicated for a single post, and I'm not an expert on it.