Compaq Easy Access Buttons

[frank pirrone]

Justin Bennett wrote:

> frank pirrone wrote:
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> >Justin Bennett wrote:
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> >>frank pirrone 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.
> >>>
> >>>! global Xmodmap file -- used by both xdm and xinit (startx)
> >>>
> >>>! 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)
> >>>
> >>>! i386 and alpha
> >>>! keycode 22 = BackSpace
> >>>! keycode 107 = Delete
> >>>
> >>>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)
> >>>
> >>>! 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)
> >>>
> >>>! i386 and alpha
> >>>! keycode 22 = BackSpace
> >>>! keycode 107 = Delete
> >>>
> >>>! powerpc
> >>>! keycode 59 = BackSpace
> >>>! keycode 125 = Delete
> >>>
> >>>! sparc
> >>>! keycode 50 = BackSpace
> >>>! keycode 73 = Delete
> >>>
> >>>! Euro sign support
> >>>! keycode 26 = e E currency
> >>>! keycode 54 = c C cent
> >>>! keycode 113 = Mode_switch Mode_switch Multi_key
> >>>
> >>>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?
> >
> >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.
> >
> >What I can't tell is that this would occur during game play.
> >
> >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.
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Correct, there appears to be no way to bind keycodes to that mixers controls.
Don't know what sound drivers you are running, but ALSA has a nice keyboard
controllable mixer.  Also, if you used a console mixer, you could shell out
(ctrl-alt-F2 or whatever) to adjust the setting then shell back into your x
session (ctrl-alt-F7) to resume gameplay.  However, this doesn't sound like what
you want to do.

I can't imagine all the Quakers on this list are ignoring this thread.  Surely
someone has messed with these extra keyboard buttons to control some system/game
parameters.

Frank