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ppvg

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From: Enschede, The Netherlands

Registered: 2006-11-06

Posts: 12

i8kbuttons: ioctl failed

I've been trying to get the volume buttons of my Dell Latitude D830 to work. I installed i8kutils and tried an approach using amixer. I've also installed aumix to try the example in the i8kbuttons man page. I keep getting things like this:

[user@system ~]$ i8kbuttons -u "aumix -v +10" -d "aumix -v -10" -m "aumix -v 0" -r 100 -v
i8kbuttons v1.3 07/11/2001 - Copyright (C) Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@debian.org>
ioctl failed: Invalid argument

Does anyone have a clue? I'm running acpid as well, though I'm not too sure whether it's needed. Running i8kbuttons as root doesn't seem to make any difference.

Update:
Somehow I'd managed to overlook the fact that, since I run GNOME, I can simply add the volume control buttons to the appropriate shortcuts in GNOME's "Keyboard Shortcuts".

The problem isn't really solved though, because i8kbuttons still doesn't work. But at least I'm happy.

Last edited by ppvg (2007-11-02 13:07:16)

TjPhysicist

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From: Waterloo, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-12

Posts: 126

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Re: i8kbuttons: ioctl failed

I have the same problem but am using dwm, so i have no real way of doing this without ioctl. does anyone know whats wrong here?

-Tj

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-Tj
Now reborn as Tjh_ (to keep it similar to my username in other places)

elliott

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Registered: 2006-03-07

Posts: 296

Re: i8kbuttons: ioctl failed

I just tried that exact command on my Dell C600 as a normal user, worked perfectly. Do you have the i8k kernel module loaded?