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cujo

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Registered: 2007-03-28

Posts: 45

Making the Volume Buttons Work - Lenovo T61

I've installed Arch (64bit) on my Lenovo T61, and I'm trying to work out the quirks.

For example, the sound and software volume controls work fine.  However, the hardware volume up/down/mute buttons do nothing.  I've searched the forums and there seem to be reports of people having a working mute, but nothing else.  I don't even have that.  Basically, I can use the volume control slider in kde to set the volume, but I want to be able to use the buttons for that.

Anyone have any ideas on where I can start with this?  I imagine it involves doing some keymapping, but I'm not sure where to begin.

The_Major

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From: Newport, UK

Registered: 2008-03-31

Posts: 18

Re: Making the Volume Buttons Work - Lenovo T61

Have a look here

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hotkeys

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mrspin

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Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 14

Re: Making the Volume Buttons Work - Lenovo T61

I have a T61 I got a few months ago. There was a bios issue that prevented the volume keys from working, and one that stopped the right USB ports from working. If you upgrade to the latest bios on lenovo's site it should work.

mrspin

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Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 14

Re: Making the Volume Buttons Work - Lenovo T61

also for my xmodmap i have
keycode 234 = XF86Back
keycode 233 = XF86Forward
keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev
keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop
keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay
keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext
keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute
keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume

I still haven't gotten some of the Fn-Fx combos to generate an x keycode or the thinkvantage button.

cujo

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Registered: 2007-03-28

Posts: 45

Re: Making the Volume Buttons Work - Lenovo T61

Thanks all.  Following that web page, I managed to get the volume buttons working, and those other keycombos are a nice addition as well.  I had resigned myself to simply not caring if I got some of those working.

Maybe it is in bad taste to hijack my own post, but...  mrspin, did you manage to get suspend to work on lid close?  http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=48322

mrspin

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Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 14

Re: Making the Volume Buttons Work - Lenovo T61

I never wanted that so I never tried...

dedhart

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Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 123

Re: Making the Volume Buttons Work - Lenovo T61

Ok I used xmodmap, and everything looks good according to xev, but theres no change in volume or mute when I press the volume buttons.

Edit: Nevermind, figured it out, xfce uses aumix by default, had to make a new keyboard shortcuts profile and change the commands so it uses amixer instead, now it works fine.

Last edited by dedhart (2008-06-29 21:05:04)