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Is there access to the DELL XPS Media Program software?

If you saw the Dell XPS in action, you probably noticed its beautiful media buttons above the regular keyboard:

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They blink when the laptop starts up and when you touch them.

Does anyone know how to make these buttons soft?

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I had an old IBM laptop in which a keyboard LED indicator was installed, located at the top of the LCD bezel (where iSight is on a MacBook or MacBook Pro). I found that I can access this light through /proc/acpi under Linux.

I wrote a simple script that turned lights on and off while interacting with / proc. There is a post on my blog with code .

You might want to try running the Ubuntu live CD and see if it detects buttons, and if you can access them through /proc . A quick search showed that the new XPS systems work out of the box with Ubuntu, so this would be a good starting point.

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