Averatec AV1020 review

[Mikko Työläjärvi]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Bill Paul wrote:

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> Stuff that doesn't work:

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> Special volume control keys: these seem to have no effect. The screen
> brightness controls do work though.

On my H^HDell laptop, which seems to behave much the same as your
Averatec, the volume and mute buttons actually generate X events, so I
mapped the key codes to the corresponding XF86Audio* symbols and bound
those to actions in my window manager, which then runs a script to
poke mixer(8).

   $.02,
   /Mikko