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GogglesGuy

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From: Rocket City

Registered: 2005-03-29

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[SOLVED][Toshiba Laptop] Volume Wheel never stops generating events

I have this volume wheel on my laptop which I like to use to control the volume of the audio on my laptop. However I run into a problem:

The Good  => Using xev I verified that It does generate keypress and keyrelease events (two different ones for either up or down). I would still have to remap those to XF86VolumeLower and such...

The Bad => Once I turn the wheel  I keep getting keypress/keyrelease events continously even after I've stopped turning it...

The Ugly = > this makes it completely not usable.

Anyone seen this problem before? I googled around, most people seemed to have a problem getting events from volume wheels...

Edit:

Sorry for editing such an old post. This got fixed in udev-159-1.

Last edited by GogglesGuy (2010-07-07 17:55:30)

GogglesGuy

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From: Rocket City

Registered: 2005-03-29

Posts: 610

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Re: [SOLVED][Toshiba Laptop] Volume Wheel never stops generating events

I'm still having this issue running the latest kernel and xorg. Since the event seems to be reported by xorg, would this most likely be a xorg bug or misconfiguration (and such should I report it as a bug to xorg)?

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

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Re: [SOLVED][Toshiba Laptop] Volume Wheel never stops generating events

I would say yes it is Xorg ultimately. Have you tried changing your keyboard type in xorg.conf? Not sure what it should be but that would be my first plan of attack..