Thinkpads Forum

Hi,

I recently bought a T42p and installed gentoo on it. Thanks to this forum and a number of other websites, I think I've finally managed to get just about everything working after much teeth gnashing and banging of head, including the IBM a/b/g w/wpa, cpu/gpu scaling, s3 suspend, dual monitors (no thanks to the horrid ATI drivers!), trackpoint scrolling, and a number of other things that I've forgotten about now, but I know that works. The only things that remain unsolved are hibernation (don't need it so haven't looked into it), and 3D acceleration...currently anything 3D crashes xorg...so I just took out the glx extension altogether and swept that under the rug...so much for using that firegl card, sigh.

Anyway, apparently there are these two extra keys near the scroll buttons that I have no idea what to do with. Has anyone mapped these keys to anything useful? I'd like to use it for switching desktops in flux. Any tips?

Thanks,
-Jim

They're regular keys, so just get your window manager to do something with them.

If you need their keycodes, just load up xev, and press them.

Thanks! I didn't know about the xev program.

For those interested, just changed my xmodmap file so that keycodes 233 and 234 emitted XF86User1KB and XF86User2KB respectively, and added the following lines to my .fluxbox/keys file:
Best,
-Jim