does anyone know what i have to edit in order to get my laptop to be able to use the extra 6 keys on my laptop - volume - home - email etc. i have googled for an hour and all seem to say i need to edit xorg or that there are patches for it but all the links are dead and they don't go into details on their pages

If you run `xev` in a terminal (and after letting the output stop, if it starts going haywire without intervention), does pressing the button output the keycode? I have some keys on my keyboard that don't output anything, but most of them do. If you're lucky they'll all work and you can simply map each one to an application or action (if you use KDE, you can edit keymappings using "Regional & Accessibility">"Keyboard Shortcuts" in the Control Center; if you use another major desktop environment, such as Gnome, XFCE, even IceWM I think can do such keymappings, then there should be DE-specific ways to do this. If you use a WM/DE without this capability you'd have to play with xmodmap).

Good luck.

ah - thanks

Did you get it all figured out?

i can see where to add them - i just cant see to figure out how - there don't see to be a pre set for volume there and it don't seem to let me add, i will have to have a look later today when things are sorted out

See my other post here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...2/#post3115025 -- it's a great improvement over my previous method, and is explained in full.