Comment 7 for bug 90687

Also In my Acer Aspire 5920 multimedia keys don't run (either in Hardy or in Intrepid).
In 8.10 is there a workaround (not a fix) to make these keys recognisible (thanks to Percy Leonhardt for this as you can read from bug #152016). With the workaround you have to insert the command
xinput set-button-map "4" 1 2 3 17 18 19 20 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
in system -> preferences -> sessions -> startup programs and then restart X
After the restart if you go to the system -> preferences -> keyboard shortcuts you can now assign the multimedia keys to an action.
The strange thing is that even before inserting the command above and go to system -> preferences -> keyboard shortcuts the actions play, stop, next track and so on are assigned to shortcuts XF86AudioPlay, XF86AudioStop, etc, that are the real assignments of the multimedia keys. You can try this:
- inserting the command above (xinput set-button-map etc etc etc)
- restarting X
- going to system -> preferences -> keyboard shortcuts and trying to re-customize the actions I told before

Obviously before inserting the xinput command and you try to re-customize the actions play, stop, next track, etc you cannot do it as the multimedia keys don't run.

After you insert xinput and restart you can reassign the shortcuts for the launch media player as the default shortcut doesn't do anything. I assign this action to Acer Empower key (the key with the "e"). Now when you press it rhythmbox is launched. Then if you load some files and try to listen them via rhythmbox you realize that multimedia keys don't run or, to say better, don't do nothing but they change the light when "pressed".

I also confirm that euro and dollar keys don't work.

@Brodock can we know the steps that you did to make them (multimedia, dollar, and euro keys) work on Hardy?