RE: multimedia buttons
I did not do it and it works fine
>===== Original Message From 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
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