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elflord

Member

From: France

Registered: 2008-11-09

Posts: 51

volum turning wheel doesn't work

Hi all:

I have a toshiba satelite laptop
It provides a "wheel" (not sure the word is correct, sorry. not a english native speaker) for adjusting sound volumns
it doesn't work with Archlinux
any hint ?

thanks

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: volum turning wheel doesn't work

This should help.

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Mektub

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From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: volum turning wheel doesn't work

Hi all:

I have a toshiba satelite laptop
It provides a "wheel" (not sure the word is correct, sorry. not a english native speaker) for adjusting sound volumns
it doesn't work with Archlinux
any hint ?

thanks

Does this wheel correspond to the mousewheel ?
Anyhow, installing and executing:

pacman -S volwheel
volwheel &

will perhaps achieve what you need. That's what I use with my Logitech G5 mouse.

Try it, if it doesn't work you can always remove it.

Another way is to find with "xev" what events your wheel generates and bind them to volume Up/Down,
how to that will depend on what window manager you are using.

Mektub

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