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toasty_ghosty

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From: The Internets

Registered: 2009-01-12

Posts: 103

Volume Buttons on Thinkpad not working

Hello,

I installed Arch on my Thinkpad X200 with Fluxbox and PCManFM running as a file manager. Problem is, my Thinkpad's volume buttons don't seem to work. Any ideas?

I installed the tpb package and now my mute button works, but the volume up and down don't.

Thanks,

Toasty

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Thinkpad X200 FTW!

vi3dr0

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-03-22

Posts: 208

Re: Volume Buttons on Thinkpad not working

amixer sset PCM 2-

(or 2+ for louder, or different integer value to change step value). Set it up with Fluxbox or xbindkeys, or whatever

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n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 956

Re: Volume Buttons on Thinkpad not working

See this wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Len … media_Keys.
Not your thinkpad model but i think it can help you

toasty_ghosty

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From: The Internets

Registered: 2009-01-12

Posts: 103

Re: Volume Buttons on Thinkpad not working

Thanks both.

My volume keys as well as a few others work without fault.

Thanks again.

Toasty

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Thinkpad X200 FTW!

brazman

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Registered: 2010-01-26

Posts: 8

Re: Volume Buttons on Thinkpad not working

I have a thinkpad T60 and I can't get my sound to work at all. I have added username to the audio group and i have done the alsa-mixer settings. No luck. Did you do anything special to get the sound working?

also, working on the video performance. glxgears works but the fps are poor. Direct rendering is yes. My video card is the:VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"    BoardName   "M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300]"BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"

Any advice?

thanks!

dhave

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From: Outside the matrix.

Registered: 2005-05-15

Posts: 1,112

Re: Volume Buttons on Thinkpad not working

I have a thinkpad T60 and I can't get my sound to work at all. I have added username to the audio group and i have done the alsa-mixer settings. No luck. Did you do anything special to get the sound working?

also, working on the video performance. glxgears works but the fps are poor. Direct rendering is yes. My video card is the:VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"    BoardName   "M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300]"BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"

Any advice?

thanks!

Do you use KDE4? If, so, is this post helpful? I have a T61p.

(BTW, we should probably move this particular discussion to a new thread, but I'll leave that to you.)

Last edited by dhave (2010-01-26 23:38:59)

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brazman

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Registered: 2010-01-26

Posts: 8

Re: Volume Buttons on Thinkpad not working

I did solve this problem by following your post. Found that later. Also, by pressing my volume key, wollie, my sound started working. Thank you for your help. Many people have made it possible for me to get my laptop working to include my video. Removed the radeonhd driver and installed the radeon driver and did my xorg.conf and now my video is working great. once again, thanks to all of the people on the forums.

brazman

btw, running xfce4.

Last edited by brazman (2010-01-29 18:15:58)