Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

[Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu>]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:23:56AM +0100, Penguin Lover Stefan G. Weichinger squawked:
> Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
> 
> > I still get no output/event for those upper seven keys ... oh my.
> > At least I got a cleaned up xorg.conf for now ;-)
> > 
> > It ain't that important although I would like to see them working, it's
> > a bit hard to understand that issues like this don't just work as well.
> 
> Just to point that out: I am still interested in a solution if anyone ....

I have an Acer multimedia keyboard. I use xbindkeys to set the actions
related to multimedia keys. 

Below is a snip of my .xbindkeysrc

---------------------rc------------------
"amixer sset Headphone 1-"
   m:0x0 + c:174

"amixer sset Headphone 1+"
   m:0x0 + c:176

"amixer sset Headphone toggle"
   m:0x0 + c:160

"mpc stop"
   m:0x0 + c:164

"mpc toggle"
   m:0x0 + c:162

"mpc prev"
   m:0x0 + c:144

"mpc next"
   m:0x0 + c:153

"mpc repeat"
   m:0x4 + c:144

"mpc random"
   m:0x4 + c:153

"xscreensaver-command -lock"
   m:0x0 + c:223

"rxvt -T 'Mutt' -e /usr/bin/mutt"
   m:0x0 + c:236

"/usr/local/bin/crxvt -T 'cMutt' -e /usr/bin/mutt"
   m:0x4 + c:236

"/usr/local/bin/jrxvt -T 'jMutt' -e /usr/bin/mutt"
   m:0x8 + c:236
------------------------------end rc-------------------

As you can see, keycodes 174 annd 176 are volumes up and down, 
160 is the mute button, 164, 162 are stop and play/pause, 144 
and 153 are REW and FF, which I doubled up with meta keys to 
get other features. 223 is the "screen saver" key. And 236 is 
the "e-mail" key. 

I've quite forgotten how I found these keycodes. But some of them 
are quasi standard (I've seen the codes for volume and music player
work on other keyboards, including Dell laptops). 

On my old laptop I used to use a different solution: I think I mapped 
the appropriate keycodes to the XF86VolumeUp and similar keys and then 
mapped those key events using the WM. 

I can try to dig out the old config if you'd like. 

HTH, 

W
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