Configuring extra keys on a laptop keyboard

MasterOfTheWind · 04-09-2006, 09:23 AM

Hi!

I've got an Asus A6U laptop. Now there are some extra keys on it besides the usual keyboard. For example I've got five keys that control cd-player and some others (power mode, email, web). I know about the usual approach on how to configure these keys to work (using xev, xbindkeys and so on). The problem is that some of those keys do not send any X event and therefore are not detected by xev. Is there eny way to fix this?

Thanks....

imitheos · 04-09-2006, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by MasterOfTheWind

Hi!

I've got an Asus A6U laptop. Now there are some extra keys on it besides the usual keyboard. For example I've got five keys that control cd-player and some others (power mode, email, web). I know about the usual approach on how to configure these keys to work (using xev, xbindkeys and so on). The problem is that some of those keys do not send any X event and therefore are not detected by xev. Is there eny way to fix this?

Thanks....

These keys don't have any keycodes (because the AT driver doesn't know them) that is why xev doesn't "see" them.
Have you used the search facility ? Sorry to be mean but it has been answered only hundreds of times.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...38#post2171038
http://keytouch.sourceforge.net/

Also use search.

MasterOfTheWind · 04-09-2006, 10:17 AM

OMG... You're right, thanks very much....

really sorry about that