Compaq Easy Access Buttons

[Justin Bennett]

frank pirrone 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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>>>>>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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>>>>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
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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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>>>>>! 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.
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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.
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>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.
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>Frank
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Not a big deal, just wondering if there was an easy way to control the 
mixer volume. My old comapq laptop the keypad controlled the hardware 
volume of the line out so it worked no matter what with no config. Can 
you set the keycodes to run a command? Like lets say I wanted the 
internet button to run mozilla?

Thanks for all the help.