On Thursday 15 February 2007 22:50, Alasdair Ross wrote:
> Hello,
> This may turn into a series of questions to help me get things
> set up on y new laptop, but hopefully I'll get a little way by
> myself.... I have an Acer Aspire 5633WLMi which is now running
> Kubuntu 6.10. There are several "Multimedia buttons" along the edge
> of the keyboard which I would like to try and assign functions to
> (4 along the top - used for applications in windows, 6 more along
> the side - used for volume, play, stop, etc in windows).
> I have tried using xev but they don't seem to produce any
> keypress events (or any events at all for that matter). Would
> something like LinEAK [1] enable them or do you think I need to
> find a driver for them?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> -Alasdair-
>
>
>
> [1] http://lineak.sourceforge.net/index.php?nav=docs
Hi Alasdair,
In case it's similar, there's a page about an Acer Travelmate at
http://www.kcore.org/?menumain=4&menusub=1
which gives this info:
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Multimedia Keys
This laptop has several 'function' and 'multimedia' keys, which are
not mapped by the bios but generate scancodes.
These include:
* Volume up
* Volume down
* Mute
* Help (pops up a window with some basic info about the laptop
under windows)
* Setup (opens a program to change some bios settings)
* Change power mode
I used the hotkeys for it, with this acertm800.def file
in /usr/share/hotplug/ and then starting hotkeys as
hotkeys --no-splash --cdrom-dev=none --osd=off from your .xsession
file.
Debian users can install the hotkeys package.
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There's some other useful stuff on the same page.
HTH, Peter
