volume keys on hp nc6220

[Doncho N. Gunchev]

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.

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