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Phitherek_

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 36

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Toshiba Satellite A200-23K Media Keys and Volume Control

Hello everybody,
I have a Toshiba A200-23K laptop with Arch 2008.06 (Overlord) installed. I use the KDE4 Desktop Environment. Is there any way, to control the media players with buttons on my Media Panel? I have also a Volume Control (in right of the card reader and Microphone/Headphones) - can I use it for controlling the volume in system? I had a Kubuntu 8.04 before and they worked there without problems.
Sorry for mistakes in English.

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jakobm

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Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 132

Re: Toshiba Satellite A200-23K Media Keys and Volume Control

I use a Toshiba Satellite Pro A200, too, but there are no media keys so I can help you only with volume control. This solution should work for many other set-ups as well.

I do not know if there is a special way to do this in KDE but this should work nevertheless:

- I use xbindkeys to run commands by keyboard (and mouse) action.
- You need to run 'xbindkeys' (e.g. put it in your ~/.xinitrc).
- If you turn your volume wheel, the events 'XF86AudioRaiseVolume' and 'XF86AudioLowerVolume' are raised.
- You can change the volume easily with amixer (from alsa-utils).

So the according lines in the ~/.xbindkeysrc are:

"amixer set Master 1%+"
  XF86AudioRaiseVolume
"amixer set Master 1%-"
  XF86AudioLowerVolume