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b1ind Guest
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 12:51 am Post subject: Alsa & Laptop Volume Buttons |
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After installing alsa and its support programs, I ran mpg123 to test my sound, and it was playing as expected. However, as soon as I attempted to increase the volume using my 'Fn+Page Up' key combination, the sound seemed to crash. Before having installed the Alsa drivers, I could properly use the laptop volume buttons to increase the volume beyond what alsamixer permitted. It seems that I have to restart linux in order to regain sound.
My laptop is an Inspiron 7500, with an ESS Maestro-2E sound card (es1968). Perhaps other people could verify this, or tell me an alternative way to increase my sound level beyond what alsamixer allows.
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mb Guru


Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 355 Location: Hessen | .de
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 7:25 am Post subject: |
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hi.. i have an insp.8k and never got the buttons to work... these buttons are NOT hardwired to your soundcard and so your driver has to take care about this...
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Niek Apprentice


Joined: 14 May 2002 Posts: 236 Location: Houten, The Netherlands
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 7:41 am Post subject: |
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You can try JeruKey (http://jerukey.sourceforge.net/main.php) to get the buttons working. I'm using JeruKey with the 'multimedia keys' on my keyboard, and it's working perfectly
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mb Guru


Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 355 Location: Hessen | .de
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 9:22 am Post subject: |
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uii.. sounds good....
xfree seems to respond.. (xev shows up some keycodes).. but not not volume up/down (<- not Fn+some_key)
i will give it a try...
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b1ind Guest
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the suggestions. I tried JeruKey, but it seems to have failed to install correctly. Also, I'm not sure, but I suspect that my Fn+PageUp and Fn+PageDn work differently than the mutlimedia keys present on the i8k. What I'm really looking for is a way to prevent my habituan use of those keys from killing the sound, or even some insight as to why this would happen.
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