Re: kmilo not working on Lenny

On Wednesday 02 January 2008 18:47:06 David Jarvie wrote:
> I can't get kmilo to respond in any way to the volume and mute keys on my
> Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop (which uses the generic kmilo module). It works OK
> using (K)Ubuntu Gutsy on the same computer. It's not clear what
> configuration is needed. The mute and volume up/down keys produce the
> standard codes defined in /usr/share/hotkey-setup/key-constants, so there
> doesn't appear to be a keyboard mapping problem. On Ubuntu the keys (via
> kmilo) produce an OSD display when they are pressed, but nothing shows on
> Debian. Kmilo is set to run in the KDE service manager.
>
> Any hints as to what else to look at?

Found the solution - using xev the keycodes turn out to be different under X, and xmodmap is needed. See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=396622.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm


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