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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
> 
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