Getting volume buttons to work on T61

Cheryl Homiak cahomiak at gmail.com
Sun Apr 24 02:31:44 UTC 2011


Okay, here's what I did.

I found this link:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hotkeys
It tells you how to use showkey command to find out your keycodes. Then it links to this article:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Extra_Keyboard_Keys_in_Console

Basically you create a personal keymap just for the keys you are trying to enable and either use a keysym (the symbol for they key) or a command in quotes using the "string" command with a new-line \n to get the command executed. I did this using amixer commands, just for pcm control and it works. This was just a quick fix-up which I'll work on more later and this is a quick summary so read the information at the listed links if you are interested

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Cheryl

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and the meditation of my heart
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