[Bug 76091] kmilo-legacy needed to display brightness changes, zoom, etc, on Thinkpad T41p

[Andreas Ntaflos]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kdeutils

First: the volume keys (volume up, volume down, mute) work fine.

Using a Thinkpad T41p with Kubuntu 6.10 I had to install kmilo-legacy
and enable it in the KDE control centre. That apparently was the only
way to get on-screen display messages for brightness changes, Thinklight
toggles or Fn-Spacebar (zoom, configure for ksnapshot). Prior to that I
made sure the nvram module was loaded, that udev assigns it the correct
group and permissions and that my user was part of the nvram group:

crw-rw---- 1 root nvram 10, 144 2006-12-17 06:26 /dev/nvram

This bug has probably been reported already (a forum post on
ubuntuforums.org indicates that) but I couldn't find it, I'm afraid.

This starts another problem: the generic kmilo plugin apparently
interferes with kmilo-legacy when changing volume; the volume bar jumps
around quite a bit, e.g. from 100% to 73% to 86%, and so on in that
fashion. This problem is related or similar to bug #61822 and bug #51537
(most Thinkpads have hardware sound mixing and do not need any software
mixer to change volume or mute) and a very unfortunate situation.

** Affects: kdeutils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: kdeutils
  
  First: the volume keys (volume up, volume down, mute) work fine.
  
  Using a Thinkpad T41p with Kubuntu 6.10 I had to install kmilo-legacy
  and enable it in the KDE control centre. That apparently was the only
  way to get on-screen display messages for brightness changes, Thinklight
  toggles or Fn-Spacebar (zoom, configure for ksnapshot). Prior to that I
  made sure the nvram module was loaded, that udev assigns it the correct
  group and permissions and that my user was part of the nvram group:
  
  crw-rw---- 1 root nvram 10, 144 2006-12-17 06:26 /dev/nvram
  
  This bug has probably been reported already (a forum post on
  ubuntuforums.org indicates that) but I couldn't find it, I'm afraid.
  
  This starts another problem: the generic kmilo plugin apparently
  interferes with kmilo-legacy when changing volume; the volume bar jumps
  around quite a bit, e.g. from 100% to 73% to 86%, and so on in that
- fashion. This problem is related or similar to bug #61822 and #51537
+ fashion. This problem is related or similar to bug #61822 and bug #51537
  (most Thinkpads have hardware sound mixing and do not need any software
  mixer to change volume or mute) and a very unfortunate situation.

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kmilo-legacy needed to display brightness changes, zoom, etc, on Thinkpad T41p
https://launchpad.net/bugs/76091