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Date:      Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:35:55 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Nathan Vidican <nvidican@wmptl.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HP pavillion dv8000 hotkey mappings
Message-ID:  <444psut9k4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <455E1159.9000605@wmptl.com> (Nathan Vidican's message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:45:29 -0500")
References:  <455E1159.9000605@wmptl.com>

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Nathan Vidican <nvidican@wmptl.com> writes:

> Does anyone know how to make use of the hotkeys for multimedia
> functions? (ie: play/pause, stop, prev, next, vol-up, vol-down, mute,
> etc) ... Have found several articles on these machines, but most
> pertaining to the way one particular linux distro vs another makes use
> of these keys.
>
> Most specifically, I'd like to get them to work from within kde, mixer
> function more than anything (need quick mute/vol-up/down - could live
> without the rest). I'm just not sure where/how to map the keys using
> freebsd/xorg?
>
> Hoping it'll be something simple, but what? - or is this something
> more complex regarding acpi ?
>
> Any ideas, suggestions, comments, or redirects greatly appreciated.

If they produce x events (check with xev), then they can be mapped
like any other event.  I recently had such a keyboard, however, and
those keys didn't produce any events.  I didn't have a chance to play
with it much, though; I had to get rid of it for unrelated reasons.



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