Phantom Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Using KDE you can configure your FN buttons for volume control and many other functions. You can do that through the accessibility tools => Keyboard Layout There you activate the keyboard layout and select your country. After that you select the "Laptop Computer Dell Inspiron 8100", restart your X and voila it should work. Tested on 4 different Acer laptops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 And if you have an acer laptop with extra shortcut buttons that normally seem dead, you can bring them back to life with this driver right here: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Posted June 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Not really, it only works on the Travelmate series, I have tested it on my Ferrari and the Aspire series, both don't work. I managed to get the extre keys like Email, Web, etc... working but only under Gnome 2.10/Ubuntu, they don't work with Mandrake/KDE or Kubuntu. If someone has a workaround then I would appreciate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Posted June 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 (edited) Ok, got them to work now, thanks to Gnome ;) but still working in KDE. You'll need to launch : gnome-keybinding-properties, from there you can add the shortcuts to Firefox, mail, etc... using the extra buttons. The output of the buttons is : 0xec for the mail button 0xb2 for the web button The extra buttons P1 and P2 ain't giving any code back, still workin on it. Edited June 7, 2005 by Phantom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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