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#1 2010-12-18 07:18:08

plutoisaplanet
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Registered: 2008-07-17
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Laptop Special Buttons

Hey everyone!

So I finally installed arch linux again (after a pretty long time). I installed xfce and compiz fusion together.
I have a dell studio xps 1645, and it has these buttons at the top (they're not keys but those touch-sensitive buttons) none of which seem to work. They all worked when I had ubuntu so I know that they can work with linux, I just don't know how to get them to work with arch.

I did a lot of googling, to no avail. I managed to map just the eject key to the 'eject' command, but I wouldn't even know where to begin for something like 'next' or 'turn wireless off'. So I imagine there must be a better way to do this.

Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what to do? Thank you!!

-parth

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#2 2010-12-18 07:27:30

jasonwryan
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Re: Laptop Special Buttons


Arch + dwm   •   Mercurial repos  •   Surfraw

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#3 2010-12-18 07:34:02

plutoisaplanet
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Re: Laptop Special Buttons

jasonwryan wrote:

Okay I will look into that and get back if I still can't figure it out. Thank you!

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#4 2010-12-18 07:52:04

tomk
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Re: Laptop Special Buttons

Always check the wiki before asking questions here.

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#5 2010-12-18 09:34:04

ferda
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Registered: 2010-02-05
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Re: Laptop Special Buttons

Do you have acpi and acpid installed (and started)?

I don't know about dell but often there are kernel modules that automatically recognise all the special hotkey events (Check witch acpi_listen).

extra/i8kmon 1.33-1
    Tk-based daemon for i8kutils and Dell Inspiron/Latitude notebooks
extra/i8kutils 1.33-1
    Dell Inspiron/Latitude kernel driver and utilities

AUR/aircraft-manager 12.1-1
    Dell released Aircraft Manager, a program for turning wireless devices off
AUR/biosdisk 0.75-3
    Dell BIOS Flash disk image creation
AUR/delldiagnostics 1344A0-1
    Dell 32 bit Diagnostics and MpMemory utilities (GUI version, Multi System)
AUR/ei8k-module-svn 7-1
    An E17 module to control and monitor fan speeds of Dell notebooks
AUR/i8kmonitor 0.1.1-1
    Simple fan control daemon for i8k (Dell Latitude and Inspiron notebooks)
AUR/i8krellm 2.5-2
    GKrellM plugin for Dell Inspiron/Latitude notebooks
AUR/xf86-input-synaptics-jumpycursor 1.2.1-1
    synaptics driver for notebook touchpads with jumpy cursor patch, which is needet for Dell Mini 10 (Inspiron 1011 & 1012) and HP MiniNote 1000. On the Dell netbooks, the click keys are also touchable area of
    the pad, so that if you try to select a text the

This is what a search for dell in the repos returned, I don't know if i8kutils is also for your modell.

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