From: Daniel K. <dan...@in...> - 2010-05-24 00:40:44
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Dear Lubuntu users and developers, first of all - thanks for creating Lubuntu - it makes using LXDE in Ubuntu an even better experience than before! Unfortunately I am experiencing a sound / volume problem with Lubuntu: When pressing the hardware buttons for volume adjustment and mute it seems to have no effect. The buttons do not trigger any alsa events (at least from what I see in alsamixer) and thus the LXPanel Volume App does not visualize them. Nevertheless, to adjust volume you have to do two things: a.) Adjust the alsamixer volume (visible for the end user) b.) Press the hardware buttons (invisible for the end user) Since pressing the hardware buttons gives no feedback, novice users might get very confused why their sound is not working. I can confirm the issue on the following machines: A Thinkpad X21 (P3-700, 256MB) and a Thinkpad X40 (P- M-1.2, 1GB). While the old X21 does not generate any ACPI events when pressing the buttons, the newer X40 does. I can imagine that this issue might be related to the absent pulseaudio packages, and the way Ubuntu deals with sound using pulseaudio. Any hints on how to fix this are warmly welcome! Regards, Daniel |
From: Andrea F. <an...@op...> - 2010-05-24 08:47:36
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 lxpanel audio applet doesn't support multimedia keys. for that reason, several distros like fedora and suse chose to use gmixer instead of that broken applet Andrea Il 24/05/2010 02:40, Daniel Kulesz ha scritto: > Dear Lubuntu users and developers, > > first of all - thanks for creating Lubuntu - it makes using LXDE in Ubuntu an > even better experience than before! > > Unfortunately I am experiencing a sound / volume problem with Lubuntu: When > pressing the hardware buttons for volume adjustment and mute it seems to have > no effect. The buttons do not trigger any alsa events (at least from what I > see in alsamixer) and thus the LXPanel Volume App does not visualize them. > Nevertheless, to adjust volume you have to do two things: > > a.) Adjust the alsamixer volume (visible for the end user) > b.) Press the hardware buttons (invisible for the end user) > > Since pressing the hardware buttons gives no feedback, novice users might get > very confused why their sound is not working. I can confirm the issue on the > following machines: A Thinkpad X21 (P3-700, 256MB) and a Thinkpad X40 (P- > M-1.2, 1GB). While the old X21 does not generate any ACPI events when pressing > the buttons, the newer X40 does. > > I can imagine that this issue might be related to the absent pulseaudio > packages, and the way Ubuntu deals with sound using pulseaudio. > > Any hints on how to fix this are warmly welcome! > > Regards, Daniel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > Lxd...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list > - -- - ------------------------------------------ Andrea Florio QSI International School of Brindisi Sys Admin CISCO CCNA Certified openSUSE-Education Administrator openSUSE Official Member (anubisg1) Email: an...@op... Packman Packaging Team Email: an...@li... Web: http://packman.links2linux.org/ Cell: +39-328-7365667 - ------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkv6PbcACgkQyCZT87TFPujuEACcCj1CuqYaeHps9kseUkm/YTXj vLwAnib+//tbW2Phzr5rIge6f37tv2kj =dtsA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: Marty J. <mar...@co...> - 2010-05-24 11:11:38
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As luck would have it your faithful developer just got done researching how to pick up the multimedia key events. You are correct, there is no code to do this in the released panel. (ALSA is not the component that would deliver these events.) This can be expected to make its way into the product in the future. On 05/24/2010 04:49 AM, Andrea Florio wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > lxpanel audio applet doesn't support multimedia keys. for that reason, > several distros like fedora and suse chose to use gmixer instead of that > broken applet > > Andrea > > Il 24/05/2010 02:40, Daniel Kulesz ha scritto: >> Dear Lubuntu users and developers, >> >> first of all - thanks for creating Lubuntu - it makes using LXDE in Ubuntu an >> even better experience than before! >> >> Unfortunately I am experiencing a sound / volume problem with Lubuntu: When >> pressing the hardware buttons for volume adjustment and mute it seems to have >> no effect. The buttons do not trigger any alsa events (at least from what I >> see in alsamixer) and thus the LXPanel Volume App does not visualize them. >> Nevertheless, to adjust volume you have to do two things: >> >> a.) Adjust the alsamixer volume (visible for the end user) >> b.) Press the hardware buttons (invisible for the end user) >> >> Since pressing the hardware buttons gives no feedback, novice users might get >> very confused why their sound is not working. I can confirm the issue on the >> following machines: A Thinkpad X21 (P3-700, 256MB) and a Thinkpad X40 (P- >> M-1.2, 1GB). While the old X21 does not generate any ACPI events when pressing >> the buttons, the newer X40 does. >> >> I can imagine that this issue might be related to the absent pulseaudio >> packages, and the way Ubuntu deals with sound using pulseaudio. >> >> Any hints on how to fix this are warmly welcome! >> >> Regards, Daniel >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Lxde-list mailing list >> Lxd...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list >> > > > - -- > - ------------------------------------------ > Andrea Florio > QSI International School of Brindisi Sys Admin > CISCO CCNA Certified > openSUSE-Education Administrator > openSUSE Official Member (anubisg1) > Email: an...@op... > Packman Packaging Team > Email: an...@li... > Web: http://packman.links2linux.org/ > Cell: +39-328-7365667 > - ------------------------------------------ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkv6PbcACgkQyCZT87TFPujuEACcCj1CuqYaeHps9kseUkm/YTXj > vLwAnib+//tbW2Phzr5rIge6f37tv2kj > =dtsA > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > Lxd...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list > |