Keyboard for Ideacentre A310 and Ubuntu

[wulle489]

Hi

The Ideacentre A310 comes with s wireless keyboard (A310-K BT Keyboard), but I cannot get it to work properly in Ubuntu 10.04.

The problem is, that it does not regognize key-combinations, so I cannot write in upper-case or use keyboard shortcuts. The Fn-key however seems so be working.

I've tried every keyboard-model in the keyboard-settings-menu I could think of. but none seems to change anything.

Anyone knows what the problem is?

This is written with a Logitech wireless USB keyboard that works perfectly - though it has become a bit nasty over the years.

[Serge1410]

hi wulle489,

i suggest asking the Ubuntu forums and check if they have any repositories with regards to getting the keyboard to work correctly.

[doggygray · Accepted solution]

Hello!

A have Lenovo Ideacentre A320 and same problems with keyboard.

I wrote linux driver and it works good in ubuntu 12.04

Here is driver source code and install instructions

https://github.com/aleksandr-rakov/hid-a320

[wulle489]

Hello doggygray

Thank you very much for the driver and instructions. However, the driver is not perfect. It seems the Fn-key is now permanently on for the built-in numeric keyboard, so that it is no longer possibly to use the uiopjklæm.-keys. Other Fn functions seem to work fine, and so does shift, Ctrl and Alt combinations.

The problems I have may og may not derive from this error-message, when i ran the modprobe command.

:~$ sudo modprobe -r usbhid; modprobe hid-a320; modprobe usbhid
[sudo] password for mwp: 
FATAL: Error inserting usbhid (/lib/modules/3.2.0-29-generic/kernel/drivers/hid/usbhid/usbhid.ko): Operation not permitted

[doggygray]

Hello, sorry i forgot 'sudo' - please use next comands:

sudo modprobe -r usbhid;sudo modprobe hid-a320; sudo modprobe usbhid

And you may turn off numeric keyboard - just press Fn F11

[wulle489]

Fn F11 did the trick. Thanks a lot. Very nice work.

(written with the bundled Lenovo-keyboard, that has been sitting idly in a cupboard for 1½ years!)