[Bug 38822] Re: Volume key controls "Phone Out" NOT Volume.

[Paul Sladen]

Hello Trae,

Oh, our support is better than that.  It's a BUG if they don't work out of the box as soon as you plug it in.

In this case, the WWW key should send the correct code to automatically open a web-browser anyway (but you are of course free to remap that).

In the case of the volume keys, they are working aswell and send the correct key-codes;  however in the kernel/ALSA (the sound drivers) the main mixer channels are getting mis-detected.  These are wired differently on each laptop and need work arounds;  can you paste the dmi output shown on the bottom of:

  http://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HotkeyResearch

so that we can identify your laptop.  'aumixer' is not actually a good tool to test this as it uses the legacy OSS interface.  Could you try with 'alsamixer' and see which channel is actually your main mixer channel?

** Changed in: hotkey-setup (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: hotkey-setup => linux-source-2.6.15
Binarypackagename: hotkey-setup => None
       Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info

** Summary changed:

- Volume key controls "Phone Out" NOT Volume.
+ [alsa] volume keys move "Phone Out" instead of main mixer Volume.
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[alsa] volume keys move "Phone Out" instead of main mixer Volume.
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/38822