HP pavillion dv8000 hotkey mappings

[Nathan Vidican]

Does anyone know how to make use of the hotkeys for multimedia 
functions? (ie: play/pause, stop, prev, next, vol-up, vol-down, mute, 
etc) ... Have found several articles on these machines, but most 
pertaining to the way one particular linux distro vs another makes use 
of these keys.

Most specifically, I'd like to get them to work from within kde, mixer 
function more than anything (need quick mute/vol-up/down - could live 
without the rest). I'm just not sure where/how to map the keys using 
freebsd/xorg?

Hoping it'll be something simple, but what? - or is this something more 
complex regarding acpi ?

Any ideas, suggestions, comments, or redirects greatly appreciated.

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Nathan Vidican
nvidican at wmptl.com