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Subject: Re: HP NC6000 with FB 5.4
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Jue Yuan <yuanjue122@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello, everyone
> 
> I'm a newbie here and to FreeBSD. Just installed FB5.4 in my notebook less 
> than two months. After a lot of stuff have been done, I now can use my 
> laptop 
> with FB5.4+KDE3.4.2 as smoothly as using Windows before, even more 
> efficiently^_^
> 
> But there is still some problems that I do want to fix in order to make my 
> NB 
> look more perfect. The question is: Can I use all of the buttons in my NB, 
> say the Mute button, the Volume control buttons, and Wireless ON/OFF button.
> Although I can already control the volume of my soundcard and connect to 
> wireless lan using the wireless NIC, I still want these buttons to work, 
> just 
> as in Windows.
> 
> Does anyone know how to deal with this? Any suggestion will be appreciated!

I don't know what you mean by "NB", but maybe you could try using
xev(1) to find out whether X sees events from those buttons?