[ltp] Volume buttons turn microphone on

André Wyrwa linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 13 May 2007 00:13:00 +1000


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On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 23:49 +0100, Phil wrote:
> Found the answer. The Gnome System..Preferences..Sound control (which=20
> I've never noticed before) has a panel "Select the device and tracks to=20
> control with the keyboard". On my system it was set to 'Microphone'. =20
> Setting it to 'Master' cures the problem.
> Still don't know what's getting invoked via acpi though :-(

As you said, Ubuntu uses acpi_fakekey to generate a key-event. This
key-event gets translated into a software mixer control action that
should be configured in gnome keyboard shortcuts.

Andr=C3=A9.


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