Compaq Easy Access Buttons

[Justin Bennett]

frank pirrone wrote:

>Justin Bennett wrote:
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>>>Justin Bennett wrote:
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>>>>Ok I know there is a way to snag what keycodes my laptop throws when you
>>>>push the easy access buttons then in the xconfig somewhere there is a
>>>>way to bind these to commands. I really don't care about the internet or
>>>>mail or any of that crap, but my volume controlls don't work. I have to
>>>>use the software controlls in the mixer, kinda hard to do in quake. Any
>>>>help would be apreciated.
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>>>>Justin
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>>>Justin,
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>>>You're looking for xev to display the x events, then bind in
>>>/etc/X11/Xmodmap.  Here's a piece of the file as an example.
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>>>! global Xmodmap file -- used by both xdm and xinit (startx)
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>>>! keycode and keysym remapping should generally be used only if the X
>>>! server does not use the XKEYBOARD extension (i.e., there is a uncommented
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>>>! line "XkbDisable" in the keyboard section of /etc/X11/XF86Config)
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>>>! i386 and alpha
>>>! keycode 22 = BackSpace
>>>! keycode 107 = Delete
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>>>Frank
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>>Ok I have code 174 and 176 for the down and up respectively. This is my
>>Xmodmap from /;etc/X11, doesn't work though. Any ideas?
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>>>! global Xmodmap file -- used by both xdm and xinit (startx)
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>>>! keycode and keysym remapping should generally be used only if the X
>>>! server does not use the XKEYBOARD extension (i.e., there is a
>>>uncommented
>>>! line "XkbDisable" in the keyboard section of /etc/X11/XF86Config)
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>>>! i386 and alpha
>>>! keycode 22 = BackSpace
>>>! keycode 107 = Delete
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>>>! powerpc
>>>! keycode 59 = BackSpace
>>>! keycode 125 = Delete
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>>>! sparc
>>>! keycode 50 = BackSpace
>>>! keycode 73 = Delete
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>>>! Euro sign support
>>>! keycode 26 = e E currency
>>>! keycode 54 = c C cent
>>>! keycode 113 = Mode_switch Mode_switch Multi_key
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>>>keycode 174 = VolDown
>>>keycode 176 = VolUp
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>My guess is that VolDown and VolUp are meaningless to the X Window server.
>What do you expect it to control?
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>Now, if you set those codes to Left and Right and have an appropriate mixer
>running and set to the correct volume channel, pressing those buttons should
>raise and lower the channel gain.
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>What I can't tell is that this would occur during game play.
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>Frank
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Ok I just saw those referenced on a web page prob meaningless. I see 
many people bind them to F14 and F15 or something then setup Xmms to 
adjust based on that. I have the KDE mixer running  as an applet on the 
task bar. I can't find a configuration for it to set any function keys 
to raise and lower the volume. I'd like to have them controll the master 
if possible.