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Yeah, and those three keycodes are in the xev visible range, so that is not the problem, definitely.

The rest just made sure the keys didn't produce any unmapped keyboard events. And since you...

I had a quick look at kernel's input.h and see that the three keys you are talking about (465, 387 and 389) are these (in hex):
#define KEY_FN_ESC 0x1d1
#define KEY_PLAYER 0x183
#define...

Wow, that seems to be out of my range. From what I figure, any key should either
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produce something with xev,
produce something with acpi_listen,
produce something in dmesg, or
it...

Thanks. Ideally, you'd try out the instructions and report your problems, comments, suggestions etc. under the page's discussion page - that's the best way to improve the guide and help others :)

Cross-posting since you asked to post in your thread too :-)

Well I played around myself and managed to get every single key work.

I also made a little guide on how to do it at the ubuntu wiki. Tell me what you think about it.

Did you have any output in dmesg when pressing your secial notebook keys?

-- Irfy

bump?

Have you tried installing the proprietary drivers?
System->Administration->Hardware Drivers

-- Irfy

Many of the special keys on my Asus N50Vn notebook do not work (fn+ combinations and extra buttons) - but some of them do, so there should be hope.


xev gives no output when using those keys
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