Keyboard hotkeys

[Leg]

i use a Logitech Y-SAB59 PS/2 keyboard... there are 10 hotkeys: Media (to launch a media player), Play/Pause, Mute, 2 Volume keys, e-mail key, webcam key, www key, calculator key and F-Lock key... works only 3 of tham: Mute and Vol.Down, Vol.Up... I want only to make Play/Pause to work... Does anybody knows how to make it?

 

or could you point me a keyboard that would have all those functions to work?

[Metrogirl]

Logitech and Lite-On (who make most of the 'works' for intelligent keyboards) need a driver to get full functionality. In Windows this is straightforward, but there's often no driver for OSX. Look in Windows Device Manager to see what the keyboard thinks it is, and then Google for an OSX driver for it.

 

Some of the keys on intelligent keyboards send standard keycodes, and using a keymapping Preference Pane in OSX can sometimes read those codes and map them to functions you want. Google for an OSX keymapper - there are several third party products - and then when it says 'press the key you want to map' try hitting one of the special keys. If it reads it, you're almost there.

 

I use an IBM wireless keyboard on my G5 (it's made by Lite-On) and the volume buttons work but I haven't tried any of the other 'special' keys, I just don't use them.

 

There might be a quick solution which someone else can give you, but I don't know of one because, as I said, I don't really care about the special keys.

[Leg]

thank you, but all i need from those keys - is, as i said, Play/Pause! because often while listening to my favorite song (or some new song) for some reasons i have to walk away for a second or to turn off the volume. but at that time song continue playing without my notice...