The Cherry CyMotion Linux is a high quality keyboard with Linux specific keycaps. It’s supplied with a version of SuSE and a kernel patch which didn’t work for me against the 2.6.11.7 kernel. I’ve manually applied the changes it made (updated to use the idioms current in 2.6.11.7). Here’s the patch: cymotion-2.6.11.7.patch. Let me know how you get on with it.

2005/08/26 Update: It turns out that, at least on the PC I’m using, the CyMotion isn’t recognised by the BIOS although it works fine once Linux has started. That seems a bit sucky… Other USB keyboards work fine. Is it just me?

2005/09/06 Update: It was just me… Didn’t have the BIOS set up to identify USB devices. Silly me.

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