Multimedia Keys
We learned that multimedia keys are available by using showkey. To use it, one has to go to a text terminal, start showkey and press the buttons in question.
The shown keycodes (example X201) should be placed in ~/.Xmodmap
keycode 234 = XF86Back
keycode 233 = XF86Forwardpre
keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev
keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop
keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay
keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext
keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute
keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolumeMultimedia Keys for X61s
113 Volume Mute 114 Volume Down 115 Volume Up 143 FnKey itsel 148 ThinkVantage Button 152 ScreenLock (Fn+F2) 163 Media Next 164 Media Play/Pause 165 Media Previous 166 Media Stop 191 Trackpoint/Touchpad Switch (Fn+F8) 194 Dock Eject (Fn+F9) 224 Brightness Down 225 Brightness Up 227 Monitor (Fn+F7) 236 Battery (Fn+F3) 238 WLAN (Fn+F5) 372 Fn+Space
PulseAudio
PulseAudio is a sound system enabling us to control application volumes individually and use other computers soundcards over the network.
Recommended packages:
- pulseaudio (the daemon, required)
- pavucontrol (GTK based mixer application)
- paprefs (GTK based configuration tool)
Note: in order to discover remote soundcards, one has to start avahi-daemon!