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On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 05:32:03PM +0100, Penguin Lover Pat squawked: |
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> I've bought Dell Latitude E4300 and start to install Gentoo on it, but |
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> the volume buttons don't work. Please, could someone give me hint where |
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> I have to start to fix it? |
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The volume keys are not "standard" per se, which is why they often don't |
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work out of the box. I have not figured out a way to have them work in |
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CLI, but you can get them to work in X, using one of the following two |
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ways. |
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1) emerge xbindkeys |
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Read the documentation on xbindkeys to see how to write a |
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configuration file. On my Dell Latitude D600, the keycodes for |
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the volume keys are: |
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Volume up 176 |
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Volume down 174 |
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Mute/unmute 160 |
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So in your ~/.xbindkeysrc, you can write a line like |
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-------<snip>---------- |
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"amixer sset PCM +1" |
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m:0x0 + c:176 |
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-------<unsnip>-------- |
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and change your command and keycode appropriately. Lastly you |
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need to start xbindkeys. I usually have it start in my ~/.xinitrc |
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before the WM. But you can also just add it to the list of |
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programs automatically run by your WM on startup. |
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2) I think this way is probably better, but the last I tried I |
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couldn't get it to play well with e16, which is why I mention the |
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previous method. This method works with at least fvwm, and |
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probably most other WMs. |
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emerge xmodmap (if it is not installed already) |
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add the following lines to ~/.xmodmaprc |
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---------<snip>----------- |
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keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume |
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keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume |
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keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute |
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--------<unsnip>---------- |
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and make sure to start xmodmap when you start your X (again, |
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either by starting xmodmap in ~/.xinitrc or in your WM). |
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I believe some modern WMs will automagically tie the XF86Audio* |
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keys to appropriate mixer commands to raise or lower volume. If |
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not (as in the case of fvwm), you need to edit the keybinding for |
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those keys, and how to do this depends on your Window Manager of |
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choice. |
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Regards, |
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W |
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"Physics in the Laundromat" |
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"The Rolling Motion of a Half-full Beer Can" |
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Some of the favorite past-times of Prof. Kirk T. McDonald. |
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See http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/ |
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