volume keys on hp nc6220

[Dan Holwerda]

On 10/15/07, Doncho N. Gunchev <gunchev at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 2007-10-14 07:46:17 David Timms wrote:
> > Dan Holwerda wrote:
> > > let me reply to myself, fixed by updating the gnome-keybinding-properties
> > >
> > > via:
> > >
> > > To make the front panel keys (volume control, play, ...) work edit
> > > ~/.xmodmaprc and paste:
> > > keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute
> > > keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
> > > keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
> > >
> > >
> > > On 10/14/07, Dan Holwerda <dholwerda at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> hi guys,
> > >>
> > >> does any one else have a problem with laptop volume up/down/mute keys
> > >> not working?
> > >>
> > >> I am sure they were working in earlier updates.
> > There is also a keymap quirks project, that in future should yield linux
> > where the notebook special keys just work for every user of said notebook:
> > http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-keymap-index.html
> >
> > There isn't many HP models at last look, so you might like to improve
> > the coverage by adding your model.
> >
> > DaveT.
> >
>
> Do the keymap quirks work actually? I tried and got some indications it
> should (temp files), but I had to go back to setkeycodes & ~/.xmodmaprc
> to get the keys working. I tried with and utopia.repo and FC7/FC8.
>
not sure - I couldn't get them to work for me, but will probably give
it another go at some stage