On 02/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Segall</b> <<a href="mailto:david@segall.net">david@segall.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>James Buckley wrote:<br>> On 01/06/07, *Mike LaPlante* <<a href="mailto:mike@dividia.net">mike@dividia.net</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mike@dividia.net">mike@dividia.net</a>>> wrote:<br>>
<br>><br>><br>> you can even buy the Microsoft MCE Keyboard. There's some drivers<br>> floating around that allow it to work, the keyboard and mouse work as a<br>> normal HID input device, and the extra MCE keys get passed to LIRC. I
<br>> Wouldn't get it unless your willing to get a little dirty with driver<br>> compilation, but otherwise I like the keyboard a lot (however I don't<br>> really use the mouse part). I'd read some reviews on it.
<br>Does this keyboard work as a normal keyboard before an operating system<br>is loaded?</blockquote><br>No, thats the only down side. The keyboard comes with an IR receiver. You use a modified lirc mce receriver driver which hooks into the kernel with uinput (I think). The driver itself filters off the IR commands for the keys and mouse, and converts them to standard input, then it passes through the mce keys.
<br><br>It's not the easiest to set up, but I like the keyboard's style a lot.<br></div><br>