On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 03:18:03PM -0800, Heather wrote: > > Is it possible that your buttons are the same as those "internet keyboard" > buttons which many desktop users are having to put up with now? (eek, > winkeyboards.) I don't think so. The buttons appear to be sound/DVD-related, as the keys look like this (thought I mentioned this earlier, but I didn't...): [<<] [>/||] [#] [>>] [I/O] ...referring to... rew play/pause stop ff Below:
I'm not sure what the I/O button does, however, I have been able to use it to power on the accessories (CD-ROM) to eject the tray without turning the whole laptop on... > > If so: > > 1) > I found a reference on sourceforge to something calling itself akdaemon, > apparently a userland daemon to invoke "the fun keys" by accessing a dev > node offered by the complementary kernel patch. However the homepage > for the mentioned patch is not live :( with any luck maybe it is in 2.4x > anyway? and all you should need is the userland daemon. Geez. Good thing > it's source code - these docs don't say anything useful like whether > /dev/action_keys is character (you'd think) or block, what major and minor. > > The example keyboard he mentions is a "Logitech Freedom Pro" - obviously > not a laptop. I'll have to look at this... > > 2) > Freshmeat mentions a daemon called HotKeys which is supposed to listen > for those multimedia keys. Best of all its author cooked up a debian > package :> http://ypwong.org/hotkeys/hotkeys_0.5.1_i386.deb I've already tried it... no go :o/ > > > Best I could do on short notice, let us know if it helps! > > * Heather Stern * star@ many places... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ___________________________________________________ / Locked coathanger in car. \ \ Good thing I had a key. / / http://xsdg.hypermart.net|[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ \___________________________________________________/
