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some manufacturers use a driver to handle media keys (for telemetry, mostly)
Will print the scan codes in the terminal, press your media keys and see if they generate scan codes. showkey is part of the kbd package if it isn’t already installed.
Replying with this account because it won't seem to federate the post : The command sadly outputs nothing.