Re: how to get the volume keys working on a Dell Latitude

[fra-dl-no-spam@tourde.org (François TOURDE)]

Le 12505ième jour après Epoch,
Jaap Haitsma écrivait:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to attach the Fn-VolumeUp and Fn-VolumeDown of my Dell
> laptop to the volume up and volume down action in acme. The problem is
> that my Debian set up does not get an event when Fn combined with
> another key is pressed. I.e. if I launch showkey -s in a console no
> key codes are shown when I press Fn + volumeup or volumedown.
>
> It should be possible to get this keyevents because if I run the
> Gnoppix live CD showkey -s shows the key codes for the Fn combinations
>
> So my obvious question how do I get this working in Debian??

2 steps:

- Check the kernel for Dell Keyboard (CONFIG_I8K=y)

- apt-get install i8kutils

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