[SOLVED] Volume Keys Not Working

Arm-the-Homeless · 2009-02-28 18:01:15

The things on the keyboard that raise/lower/mute the volume aren't working anymore.

I reinstalled, and they worked before I did. So...

Last edited by Arm-the-Homeless (2009-02-28 19:09:26)

skottish · 2009-02-28 18:05:52

How did you have them set up? What changed? Are you running a DE? Information is good.

Arm-the-Homeless · 2009-02-28 18:37:30

I'm running GNOME.

Don't really know what you mean by the other things.

It's just, when I had my old install, they worked. Reinstalled, they don't.
I have audio working.

skottish · 2009-02-28 18:46:38

I don't use Gnome, but I know that there's an easy way to bind keys to actions. Is this something that you set up before, or did it "just work"?

Arm-the-Homeless · 2009-02-28 18:49:29

Tell the truth, I don't remember.

I don't think I did anything special, so I'd guess it "just worked."

skottish · 2009-02-28 18:58:10

On a laptop that I work on, I set up the following keys for volume up and down, and toggle mute. This is for ALSA:

XF86AudioRaiseVolume: amixer sset 'Master' 1+ -q
XF86AudioLowerVolume: amixer sset 'Master' 1- -q
XF86AudioMedia: amixer sset 'Master' toggle -q

This is for an older version of xorg-server, so I had to use .Xmodmap to define the keys. They're already defined in the newer xorg-server.

Arm-the-Homeless · 2009-02-28 19:08:09

I found a option for it in Keyboard Shortcuts.

Just redefined them. It works now.

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