Inspiron 8200 volume keys

[JFranks0987]

I have mandrake 9.2 installed and im useing kde

 

how can i get the volume buttons on the keyboard to control the volume?

 

i have no clue how and i would really like to be able to do this.....thanks*********

 

this is a dell inspiron 8200

Edited February 8, 2004 by JFranks0987

[DragonMage]

I am using pclinuxos in my laptop and there is this nifty program called klineakconfig. What it does is map those extraneous keys on the keyboard to run a program or perform a special action. One of the keyboards supported is dell Inspiron 8xxx. Since I don't have an inspiron, I don't know how it works in reality. However, check it out.. it may be the solution to your problem.

http://lineak.sourceforge.net/

 

Mandrake rpm here

http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/mandrake...-1mdk.i586.html

[iphitus]

another program is xbindkeys.

 

http://hocwp.free.fr/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html

 

Set it to aumix -v +10

to increase main volume by 10%

 

iphitus

[Peep]

you can also try acme (available via urpmi/rpmdrake). it was suggested here a while back and it worked like a charm on several laptops i've used it with.

[JFranks0987]

aweomse thanks guys ill give it a shot

[Guest frelo]

Hi, you probably figured this out but in case someone else has the same question: use i8kbuttons, in the package i8kutils. Install it together with the aumix package and add the following to /etc/rc.local:

/usr/bin/i8kbuttons -u "aumix -v +5" -d "aumix -v -5" -m "aumix -v 0" -r 100 &