Bug 142072

Stefan, work for your team?

Unfortunately yes :)

Do we have a similar machine in-house?

No.

Martin, can you please run 'xev' and press the keys.  Tell me if toemthing happens in the window of xev once you press them.

In the window of xev nothing happens. 

But xev gives output when I run it in a console. I will attach the output. I ran xev, hold FN, pressed F6 (mute), pressed F10 (volume -), pressed F11 (volume +). Then I closed xev via CTRL + C.

Created attachment 65072 [details]
output of xev

OK, next try.  Pleae make sure, that IAL (package: ial) is installed.  Become root.

$ rcial stop
$ iald -d3 -f

Now press the keys and have a look if the events come through.

muse:/home/martin # rcial stop
Shutting down IAL daemon                                             done
muse:/home/martin # iald -d3 -f
Info:    iald.c:470 main(): Running in foreground
Info:    libial.c:68 ial_dbus_connect(): dbus_bus_get(): Success.
Error:   iald_dbus.c:59 iald_dbus_setup(): dbus_bus_request_name(): Error. (Connection ":1.54" is not allowed to own the service "com.novell.Ial" due to security policies in the configuration file)
muse:/home/martin #

The keys still do not work.

Looks like you recently installed IAL which requires a restart of D-BUS (on SL10.0).  And to make it worse: rcdbus restart does not work on 10.0 as long as you're having D-BUS session busses running.

Please do (being root):

$ killall dbus-daemon
$ iald -d3 -f

Press your keys and report if some magic happens.

> $ killall dbus-daemon
> $ iald -d3 -f

This is wrong.  Use:

$ killall dbus-daemon
$ rcdbus restart
$ iald -d3 -f

It still does not work. ial says this when pressing the keys:

Debug:   libial.c:148 event_send(): Sending IAL Event: Mute (Sender=evdev, Source=AT Translated Set 2 keyboard, Raw=0x71).
Debug:   libial.c:148 event_send(): Sending IAL Event: Volume Down (Sender=evdev, Source=AT Translated Set 2 keyboard, Raw=0x72).
Debug:   libial.c:148 event_send(): Sending IAL Event: Volume Up (Sender=evdev, Source=AT Translated Set 2 keyboard, Raw=0x73).

Hey, those are good news.  Your keys _are_ working.  They just need to be connected to an action.

Which desktop environment are you using?  GNOME or KDE?

I use GNOME.

OK, fine.

You should be able to get your keys working by doing the following:

- start gnome-control-center
- click on shortcuts
(scroll a little down to "Sound"
- click the action you want to assign to a specific key
- press the desired key on your desktop

It works, thank you! 

Any chance to make it working out of the box?

Perfect, glad it works.  Enjoy your hotkeys :-)


I think that we have a chance to make it "just work".  Though, I need to think about it a little more.  Hopefully I'll find a solution make its way into SUSE LINUX 10.1.

I'll close this bug as WORKSFORME as it rather was a configuration problem and not a real bug.