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Hi,
I am using a Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard 1.0A
Could you tell me the drivers to make the EXTRA keys work??
I have Fedora Core 2...with KDE 3.2.2 in 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 kernel. I donot have windows. But I have the keyboard driver CD which (obviously) does not have Linux drivers.
First study if the keycodes sent by the keyboard are recognized by running xev and studying the output.
If they are recognized ok, then you can use eg. xmodmap to bind regular keys to them or xbindkeys to assign some external operations (eg. volume control by calling the mixer) into them.
xbindkeys runs in the backround, and it has a configuration file.
If there is no prepackaged version available, you can always take one from xbindkeys upstream.
If you don't do things as root, It can't pollute your system the same way as W programs do.
To get rid of it, just kill the xbindkeys process running in the background and remove the files you downloaded, unpacked and compiled (all in the same directory).
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