RE: multimedia buttons

[Emil Pedersen <Emil.Pedersen@its.uu.se>]

--On Friday, July 02, 2004 00:41:20 +0100 ntr 
<Norton.Roman@itri.brighton.ac.uk> wrote:

> That's precisely the problem... xev does not works with those keys... at
> least  in my laptop...
>
> > ===== Original Message From Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <tgakic@chem.tue.nl>
> > ===== On  1-07-2004, at 19h 58'06", norton wrote about "Re: multimedia
> > buttons"
> > > well, I have an acer aspire, and I installed hotkeys (apt-get hotkeys)
> > > and configured it... you'll need the keycodes for these keys...
> > >
> > > try to find if you have in the internet the configuration files for you
> > > laptop... if you cannot find it, let me know and I'll send you mine...
> > > but they will not work in your laptop... although you can always use
> > > them as a guide
> >
> > You can use xev to see if pressing those keys you get a keycodes for
> > it. I have a Sony Vaio laptop and some of the Fn combinations with Fx
> > keys dows not generate a keycode so I can't program it :-(  But I am
> > not too fun of using extra keys than the ususal.


Don't know if this goes for the aspire model, but on travelmate you have to 
use a kernel module for the keys to be detected (I _think_ they don't 
generate events without it but I may be wrong).

You may want to take a look at
	<http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/>

(just saw that they mention Aspire too).

Good luck,
	Emil