[Novalug] Guess What Works

Greg greg at lightdrizzle.net
Thu Nov 13 13:36:16 EST 2008


For those not running OpenSuSE 11.0, there is an excellent How-To on 
gentoo's site for enabling these keys.

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/HOWTO_Use_Multimedia_Keys

There are a few gentoo specifics for installing applications and setting 
them at boot.  Other than that it should work for any distro.


Dan Arico wrote:
> A little over a year ago, I had to replace my keyboard. I got a M$ multimedia 
> keyboard. Unlike some other products, their keyboards work quite well.
> 
> Of course, none of the multi-media keys did anything, but that wasn't a big 
> problem. Now I discover, quite by accident, that the upgrade to OpenSuse 11.0 
> installed something and the extra keys work.
> 
> Dan Arico
> 



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