Dell inspiron 6400 media buttons

[ponkarthik]

Hi ,

Dapper 6.06 with KDE is working absolutely fine with my Dell Inspiron 6400 including ATI, Card slot and Dual core. The only thing is the buttons on the front to control media playback/ mute and increase and decrease volume does not work in KDE. It works well with GNOME.

These buttons are very handy especially for mute or dec volume.

Can anybody guide me how to make it work.

Regards and thanks.

Karthik

[askrieger]

Re: Dell inspiron 6400 media buttons

This laptop is dicussed on the Ubuntu Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestin...llInspiron6400 It says that the multimedia keys don't work!

[fanou_101]

Re: Dell inspiron 6400 media buttons

Hi,

I have an Inspiron 6400 too, and I can use the multimedia keys.
I have Kubuntu and Kde.

So you need to install "xmodmap". Normaly you must have this packet in Kubuntu.
Create a file in your home .xmodmap and write this in it :

	keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
	keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
	keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute
	!play
	keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay
	!stop
	keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop
	!prev
	keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev
	!next
	keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext

And run this : xmodmap ~/.xmodmap


And create a file into .kde/Autostart with this

	#!/bin/sh
	xmodmap ~/.xmodmap

That's all!
ps : I'm french, sorry for my bad english.

[ponkarthik]

Re: Dell inspiron 6400 media buttons

Great. Works like magic with the xmodmap. Thanks a lot.

But the stop,start,next buttons dont seem to work with Amarok or XMMS. ? Is it not supported in them ?

Thanks.

karthik

[ponkarthik]

Re: Dell inspiron 6400 media buttons

And by the way my card reader slot works with SD cards and not with DUO PRO even with adaptor. It works fine in windows.

Have u got it working too??

Advance thanks

Karthik

[The Liquidator]

Re: Dell inspiron 6400 media buttons

I have the same issue with a Dell Laptop (Inspiron 630m). The multimedia keys (at least so far as volume are concerned) worked with I think the 2.6.15-21 kernel but a subsequent update put paid to that.

Should that fix work for me too? If so, will the keycodes be the same?

Also, the SD Card slot doesn't work at all in my machine. Any ideas how I might get it working?

Thanks

Ian