Getting laptop volume buttons working?

gentoo-newbie · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2004 Posts: 60

Is there any way to get the volume buttons on my laptop working? I read a thread about who had gentoo working on what laptops, and some guy (who had an hp ze4430us -- same as me) said "everything works," so I'm assuming its possible. Can anyone help me with this?

reaver · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 6:50 pm Post subject:

Have you ever tried lineak?
grtz

jetblack · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 7:11 pm Post subject:

You can use xev to see if they generate keycodes when pressed. If they do, then it's just a matter of mapping the keycodes to events via .Xmodmap. If you dig around a bit for xev and .Xmodmap, you should get some good information.

It's also a little bit easier if you use something like GNOME or KDE, where they provide a graphical interface to set these keys (for instance, in GNOME, go to Desktop Preferences -> Multimedia Keys).