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rvarghese

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Registered: 2011-01-22

Posts: 4

Sony Vaio Function key sound not working

Hi,

I am using Arch Linux with kernel 2.6.36 on my sony vaio (VPCEB1MOE). I couldn't get my function keys for volume and mute working.
All others function keys are working after some tweaking. In fact the sound keys are not even detected on acpi_listen. But this works perfectly on Ubuntu 10.10. Any advice please?

Thanks,
R

whitethorn

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Registered: 2010-05-02

Posts: 153

Re: Sony Vaio Function key sound not working

On my netbook, acer aspire one 721 my fn sound key doesn't get displayed using acpi_listen.  Try using xev it works for me there.

KeyRelease event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
    root 0xa7, subw 0x0, time 1743725, (132,-347), root:(726,217),
    state 0x0, keycode 122 (keysym 0x1008ff11, XF86AudioLowerVolume), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

What DE or WM are you using?

rvarghese

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Registered: 2011-01-22

Posts: 4

Re: Sony Vaio Function key sound not working

Thanks whitethorn.
Currently I am using Openbox and Slim. I tried LXDE and Enlightment. It is not working on any of those.

ehlo

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From: England

Registered: 2010-04-04

Posts: 66

Re: Sony Vaio Function key sound not working

Are you running HAL?

I have a Sony Vaio and had to add an extra line to HAL so that it knew my laptops capabilities and also a line to xorg.conf to make it properly recognise the multitouch abilities of the touchpad.
Afraid I can't be of much more help as I don't remember the files or steps that I took however I obtained all the info I needed from various wikis (Arch, Ubuntu, Gentoo etc) and search engines (by searching both for vaio info and any errors that may have appeared in the console)

rvarghese

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Registered: 2011-01-22

Posts: 4

Re: Sony Vaio Function key sound not working

Yes, I am running HAL.

lucch

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Registered: 2011-02-17

Posts: 2

Re: Sony Vaio Function key sound not working

Same problem here, but I'm not running HAL.
My notebook: Sony Vaio VPCCW13FB". Anyone else?

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Re: Sony Vaio Function key sound not working

Try reading the topic, and answering to questions asked?

Try using xev it works for me there.

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lucch

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Registered: 2011-02-17

Posts: 2

Re: Sony Vaio Function key sound not working

Problems solved.

Mute, Vol-, Vol+: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ex … ys_in_Xorg
(I'm using LXDE, so I followed the part about OpenBox)

Brightness Keys:
Changing brightness didn't work out of the box for my laptop model, even via Terminal, so I followed this in order to get it working..
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=143025
(First post)
and this to make Fn F5/F6 keys control brightness:
http://dev.osource.se/docs/obacklight/

rvarghese

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Registered: 2011-01-22

Posts: 4

Re: Sony Vaio Function key sound not working

Thanks Lucch. I will try it out.