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kmilo not working on LennyI can't get kmilo to respond in any way to the volume and mute keys on my Any hints as to what else to look at? P.S. I'm aware of the bugs in the generic module - there are fixes available -- -- Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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kmilo not working on Lenny
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 18:47:06 David Jarvie wrote:
> I can't get kmilo to respond in any way to the volume and mute keys on my
> Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop (which uses the generic kmilo module). It works OK
> using (K)Ubuntu Gutsy on the same computer. It's not clear what
> configuration is needed. The mute and volume up/down keys produce the
> standard codes defined in /usr/share/hotkey-setup/key-constants, so there
> doesn't appear to be a keyboard mapping problem. On Ubuntu the keys (via
> kmilo) produce an OSD display when they are pressed, but nothing shows on
> Debian. Kmilo is set to run in the KDE service manager.
>
> Any hints as to what else to look at?
Found the solution - using xev the keycodes turn out to be different under X,
and xmodmap is needed. See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=396622.
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David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm
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