Support for multimedia/internet keyboards

[Kevin Fries]

On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 11:55 +0100, Chris Warburton wrote:
> At LUGRadio Live there was some talk from some RedHat/Fedora people in
> the power management BoF about a generic system for submitting keycodes
> and things to a central store, so power-user types can try out all of
> the buttons on their systems (the use-case discussed was laptops), then
> this collected data could be put into an XML file in its own separate
> package, able to be updated regularly without impacting anything else
> (XML can easily be kept forward and backward compatible). Since I do not
> know the applications and things involved in this (and therefore don't
> know what to Google for) I am not sure of the implementation, or whether
> Ubuntu uses it, but I am sure it is relevant.

I believe you are speaking of the:
    System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts

I run a Dell D620, and it has just the volume keys, not all those other
multi-media keys, but I am sure its the same thing.  Until recently, we
changed Distros here in R&D quite often until we settled on Ubuntu. (our
corp standard for servers and desktops has traditionally been RedHat,
though I have worked to get Ubuntu deployed and is quickly taking over.
however, all the embedded devices I have built have always been debian
based.)  When we had SLED 10.1 and Fedora 6, we needed to use this
configurator to make the volume keys work.  I am sure its no different
for the "Mail" or "Web" keys.

When I installed Ubuntu, it was the first distro to actually make the
keys work out of the box, without needing to run this program.

HTH

-- 
Kevin Fries
Senior Linux Engineer
Computer and Communications Technologies, Inc.
a division of Japan Communications, Inc.
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