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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:16:37 PDT
From: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>
Subject: Re: Dell USB keyboard 
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> My question is, how do I go about writing a userland application to
> access the extra buttons? Would I have to use ioctl(2) to poll
> /dev/ukbd0? I would like to write the userland application in order to
> map them to:
> XF86Back
...
> XF86AudioRaiseVolume
> 
> Any suggestions?

Can xmodmap(1) do what you need?  Appears to be in ports.