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ee99ee2
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 2:03 am    Post subject: weird laptop keyboard and mouse buttons Reply with quote

I've got an HP Pavilion N5190 laptop. The keyboard seems to work fine, except for 11 buttons. On the front of the laptop, there are 6 buttons (marked Previous, Play/Pause, Stop/Eject, Next, Volume Up, and Volume Down.) Up at the top of the keyboard, near the power button and below the screen, there are 5 more buttons. One big one with a moon (standby), then 4 small ones (www, email, a weird icon that has no meaning, and a question mark).

My question is, how can I get these to work? I want the buttons on the front (play, next track, etc.) to control XMMS. And the volume buttons to control master volume. The buttons on top, I want to suspend my system (the suspend button... can you even suspend in Linux?). And all the other buttons to launch various apps (KMail, Mozilla, etc.). How can I do this?


Now, on to the mouse. This one should be pretty simple (I hope). My touch pad has two buttons down below it (left and right, obviously). Now, between these two buttons there is a little white button. It is actually two more buttons. You press up, and in theory it's like scrolling the wheel of a normal mouse up. Down, wheel down. See? How can I get that to work?

Here is part of my XF86Config:

Code:
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "PS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection


Thanks!

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 11:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection


Try that on for size with your mouse issue (try a new Protocol). As for the extra buttons on your keyboard I have no idea. I think there have been other posts regarding these issues you might search for one of them.

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