keyboard: gigabyte aivia k8100

[Godsninja]

The keyboard mentioned in title does not work on my 14.04 Ubuntu os.

I just installed, I also have a Gigbyte H55 MB

I'm new to Ubuntu, and I did some searches. It seems that Ubuntu users have to be more knowledgable and resourcesful with the terminal, what used to be called a command prompt.

I found this, but when I typed in what I thought was the command, it still doesn't work:

"
This can be solved by pressing left [Shift] + [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [N] to change the keyboard to normal mode. If you want to revert back to gaming mode, just press left [Shift] + [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [G].
Pressing the [Shift] + [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [N] combination worked for me.

The solution to
make it working is to higher the value of HID_MAX_USAGES from 12K to
64K.

dmesg/syslog reports: usage index exceeded
Hence I played around with HID_MAX_USAGES in include/linux/hid.h on
line 346 and I found out that a setting of 32K won't help. A setting
HIGHER than 32K (I would need to test again to give the exact value)
made the keyboard working - I've just changed it to 64K and all was
working as expected:
#define HID_MAX_USAGES 65534 (what I thought was the command to fix issue)
If I plug the usb keyboard in, the following three devices are added in
"lsusb":
Bus 007 Device 006: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port
HUB Bus 007 Device 007: ID 1044:7a02 Chu Yuen Enterprise Co., Ltd
Bus 007 Device 008: ID 060b:2270 Solid Year
"

The keyboard is in working order but just doesn't seem to work because ubuntu wont install drivers, or ability to use the keyboard.

I'll keep this updated, thanks.

 

[Godsninja]

Also, something weird the keyboard does is turn the sound on and off really quickly, it's quite trippy...
It was after I tried using a bunch of keys though.