On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:23:17 +0300, Jason Filippou wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I own an HP Pavillion dv 6000. Anybody who's ever seen a laptop of this line > will understand what I mean by "special keys": A set of touch-sensitive (I'm > not sure how to describe it, think of a key you can just tap to activate, > you don't need to actually press it, much like a touch - screen monitor) > keys placed above the f1, f2, etc keys whose purpose is mainly to manage > media (open default media player, rewind movie or song and stop/pause movie > or song, among others). They also make an annoying noise when one activates > them, but that doesn't have anything to do with the OS, but more with the > design choice of the hardware designers. > > Normally I wouldn't mind that all of those keys seem to be dead after a > couple of updates, but I usually manage my volume from the three respective > keys (volume up, down, and mute) so I'm a little bit concerned because right > now I'm not able to manage my volume at all. What I mean by "dead" is that > while I understand that they're not broken (due to the little leds > underneath being active AND the annoying noise always being there), Debian > doesn't seem to be able to 'read' them at all. Again I say that this > behavior has been observed lately, after a couple of general system updates. > It used to work fine after my first updates, when my system was relatively > fresh. The problem maniifests itself in both GNOME and KDE sessions. > > I'm running Debian Squeeze.
I don't know any details about the Pavillion special keys, but I would say the first step is to check if pressing these keys leads to keyprees events being detected by "xev" or "acpi_listen". -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
