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ajb

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-02-06

Posts: 31

Disable handling multimedia keys by Xserver

Hi there,
i've got problem with multimedia keys. Yes, i want disable it. Earlier(some time ago) i had my own handling scripts in acpi, that were using acpi_fakekey known from debian/ubuntu, to generate key action in Xserver. Some day, i have seen, that keys behave like be double pushed, so i disabled my scripts and everything was ok until, i've decided to use mpd to play music, and now i want to execute mpc client to play/pause directly from acpi by scripts. I hope i wrote it so You can understand me... Question is how to disable asus extra buttons

From Xorg.log

(**) Asus Laptop extra buttons: always reports core events
(**) Asus Laptop extra buttons: Device: "/dev/input/event2"
(II) Asus Laptop extra buttons: Found 1 mouse buttons
(II) Asus Laptop extra buttons: Found keys
(II) Asus Laptop extra buttons: Configuring as keyboard
(**) Asus Laptop extra buttons: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Asus Laptop extra buttons: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Asus Laptop extra buttons" (type: KEYBOARD)
(**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_layout" "pl"

All input device handled by hal.
I think i should somehow disable device in hal(by some tricky conf in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/file.fdi) or disable this device to Xserver.
Please help.