[SOLVED] Multimedia keys missing after update

ZmjbS · Last edited by ZmjbS on Tue Sep 02, 2014 7:54 am; edited 1 time in total

I'm currently stuck with trying to get my sound keys to work again.

I've been trying to wrap my head around this for a while but keep getting tangled in the web that is key handling in the various levels in Linux and am hoping someone can come to my aid and possibly even shed some light on best common practices.

So, there are several special keys on my keyboard, some of which pass as multimedia keys in X (XF86MonBrightnessUp and -Down, to name a couple). I use xbindkeys to bind these to xbacklight to modify the screen backlight.

I did, however, also have the audio keys working. Not out of the box, but they generated multimedia keys (XF86AudioRaiseVolume and -LowerVolume) which I could then bind to amixer. Then (I think this happened while sorting out some udev issue) the keys stopped generating those keys.

So, does anyone have any experience with disappearing or reappearing multimedia keys, where those keys are/should be defined, or how one should best go about setting such and similar special keys up?
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xaviermiller · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:06 pm Post subject:

Hello,

What is your computer or keyboard model ?
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ZmjbS · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:20 pm Post subject:

xaviermiller · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 4:56 pm Post subject:

I go the same problem with a Thinkpad S540/

It seems the thinkpad driver changed the keyboard mappings; I fixed it by mapping ACPI events and keyboard mappings in my desktop environment..

Take a look at ThinkWiki, for example here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Talk:Thinkpad-acpi#Problem_with_ACPI_key_event_codes_in_OpenSuse_12.3
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ZmjbS · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 7:53 am Post subject: