The problem is that not all keyboards generate the same keycodes for
multimedia/internet keys. So it is not possible to map these keys out of
the box with a name (called a keysym).

To get keysyms for your keys instead of hex codes there are 2 possibilities:
1) Find out the keycodes with xev and map them to the right keysyms with xmodmap
2) Define a new keyboard model in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/inet which allows 
you to select the keyboard in the GNOME Keyboard Preferences.

A detailed description on how to do this can be found here: http
://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Multimedia_Keys

Perhaps somebody could set up some project and ask the community to
provide their xmodmap files and create keyboard models from this that
can be sent to xorg upstream. This would be a good and relatively easy
contribution to Ubuntu and GNU/Linux in general.

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