Re: [ACPI-sppt] enabling & using hotkeys on asus L3C (L3800)

cheers Daniel,

I did think that it was pretty odd that the webpage should point to acpi 
for the use of hotkeys, but that was all i had to go on!

thanks for the link, will check it out.

Ben

Daniel Miles wrote:

>If I understand your use of the word hotkeys, it has nothing to do with
>acpi but with scan codes sent by the keyboard.
>
>You need to install hotkeys http://ypwong.org/hotkeys/0.5.7.1/ and then
>use xev (couldn't find a link, short for "X event") to find the scan
>codes for those buttons... For example, I have a multimedia keyboard and
>I have certain buttons (like mail, web/home, etc.) and when I run xev
>and push those buttons, I can see what the codes are... Then I add a
>definition file with lines like this:
>    <!-- Media button -->
>    <userdef keycode="237" command="/usr/bin/xmms">XMMS</userdef>
>
>On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 07:49, [email protected] wrote:
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>>Hi all!
>>
>>a reference on tuxmobil (http://tuxmobil.org/asus_l3800c_e.html) points 
>>to ACPI for enabling the silver hotkeys on an asus L3C laptop.
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>>has anyone looked into this at all? if so what pointers can you give?!
>>
>>I would like to utilise these keys similar to the way M$ does if 
>>possible, or for running scripts.
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>>I have acpi installed (kernel 2.4.22) with asus extras.
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>>thx
>>
>>ben
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