Public bug reported: Volume keys and mute key don't work on IBM Thinkpad T40 laptop. Jaunty regression. Worked fine in 8.04, 8.10, but in the Ubuntu 9.04 preview release that I installed yesterday these buttons no longer work.
Some more info as suggested by the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys/Troubleshooting page: --------------------- $ killall gnome-settings-daemon gnome-power-manager $ xev | sed -n 's/^.*state \([0-9].*\), keycode *\([0-9]\+\) *\(.*\), .*$/keycode \2 = \3, state = \1/p' # Result: no keypresses were indicated on pressing these keys $ hal-find-by-capability --capability input | xargs -n1 lshal -u # result: did not show any keys that were obviously related to volume, muting, etc. $ hal-find-by-capability --capability input | xargs -n1 lshal -u > lshal.log $ lshal |grep system.hardware system.hardware.primary_video.product = 19543 (0x4c57) (int) system.hardware.primary_video.vendor = 4098 (0x1002) (int) system.hardware.product = '2373CM3' (string) system.hardware.serial = '998N6T0' (string) system.hardware.uuid = '5D616681-487C-11CB-9D81-E2C74DDCB08E' (string) system.hardware.vendor = 'IBM' (string) system.hardware.version = 'ThinkPad T40' (string) $ dmesg > dmesg.log $ sudo lsinput > lsinput.log sudo: lsinput: command not found $ xkbcomp -xkb :0 - > xkbcomp.txt Warning: Could not load keyboard geometry for :0 BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) Resulting keymap file will not describe geometry $ setxkbmap -print > xkbmap.txt $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch) Release: 9.04 ------------------------------------------------------ ** Affects: hal (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- volume keys and mute key don't work in Thinkpad T40 - Jaunty regression https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359478 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
