Toshiba Satellite media buttons

Buge · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 3:43 pm Post subject: Toshiba Satellite media buttons

Hello!

I'm currently trying out gentoo on an old laptop, and have been hesitating to install gentoo on my newer Toshiba Satellite 5100-503 because I haven't found any information on if the media buttons work under linux. I'm quite fond of them and love to use the remote that goes along with them, so I was wondering if anybody has gotten them to work on a comparable toshiba laptop? How about the 'mode' function (CD/DVD or mp3)?

tia,
Philipp

Buge · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 4:31 pm Post subject:

*Bump*

Anybody? Anything?

koubiak · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 5:33 pm Post subject:

UP UP

but i don't think it's possible there is no event attached to this buttom...

Koubiak

planet-admin · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 4:26 am Post subject: Toshiba Media Controls

If you're referring to the standard media controls on the front of a toshiba laptop(i.e. the ones to control your media while laptop is closed) then yes, there is indeed a way to use them in linux. These keys and their inputs are recognized using the toshiba-acpi modules(did you configure your kernel to include them?) In /proc/acpi/toshiba you'll find "keys". When a key is pressed, the code changes, and then for it to send the next key in queue, the "hotkey ready" needs to once again equal 0. You could write a simple daemon to grab hotkey inputs and execute certain actions.

planet-admin
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johnmc · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 4:39 am Post subject:

Check out toshkey and toshkeyd, I think they're at sourceforge.

Good luck!
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johnmc · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 2:37 pm Post subject:

DId a little more research and testing and am now using the fnfx package.

You can check it out at http://fnfx.sourceforge.net/

I like it so far, and is very configurable and works well.
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Pass the ribs!
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17" G4 1.5GHZ Powerbook
Toshiba 5205-S703
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"Survived the Dotcom crash and happily toiling for the print media again"

Buge · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 9:05 pm Post subject:

Oops... haven't checked this topic in a while.

I ran into tclkeymon, available on sourceforge a little while back and started rewriting large chunks of it, and getting it to work with the remote.
Don't have a lot of time lately as I have a lot to do for uni, but I will post my results some time. I will also look into the fnfx package when I get some more time.

Thanks for your help!