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

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr>]

Have you try the package i8kutils ?

Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> 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??
>
> Jaap