xev is a good way to identify key press events, and the relevant info to make them do stuff.
Once you figure out which events need to be mapped, you need another tool to set that. Someone else actually posed this same exact question to the PLUG list not long ago, so the answer might not be that far away. On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 4:07 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/18/18 4:02 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: > > > >> On this laptop, on the left, just above the function keys, there are > >> three > >> sound related buttons. One is a speaker with a slash through it, which > >> toggles mute. To its right is a speaker with a downward pointing > >> triangle, > >> indicating lower the volume, and to its right is a speaker with an > >> upward > >> pointing triangle, indicating raise the volume. None of these buttons > >> currently function. > > > >> I've use it in conjunction with Audacity when doing recordings on other > >> machines, but that's not what I'm looking for this time. These > >> buttons are > >> more general purpose in nature. > > > > Dick, > > > > This is a good question for the hardware forum on linuxquestions.org. > > Perhaps the LQ slackware forum might have an answer, but I'd try hardware > > first. Folks there are really good about providing help. > > Thanks. I'll do that. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
