Volume keys not working properly

[John Altstatt]

Houghi;

I have these in auto-start:

Volume Control (Show desktop volume control)   and
XFCE Volume daemon (Daemon managing the volume multimedia keys and 
displaying volume notification)

I'm running openSuse 11.4 64bit on hp dv7-4274nr laptop, and the 
multimediakeys worked out-of-the-box.
I had to struggle with this on earlier versions of the OS and xfce.

ps -ef shows:
gnome-volume-control-applet running
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog running

Hope this helps,

-John



On 08/21/2011 05:47 AM, houghi wrote:
> I want to get the KEY_VOLUMEUP and KEY_VOLUMEDOWN keys working again with
> XFCE 4.8.0 in openSUSE 11.4 64 bit.
>
> I have them linked to two keys on my mouse and they used to work
> perfectly. I also have the Mixer Plugin and scrolling there works.
>
> What I now see when I try them is a huge speaker with an indicator of how
> loud it should be. When pressing the keys, the indicator changes, so that
> part is working.
>
> However where the indicator changed the volume as well as the indicator on
> the Mixer Plugin, now the volume nor the indicator on the plugin change.
>
> So the Plugin is showing the real thing, while the keys are linked to the
> big icon and do nothing anymore.
> http://houghi.eu/s/17MZ7N0X.png shows the big icon at almost 100% while
> the Plugin (bottom left) is at 0%
>
> When I go to "Session and Startup) I have "Volume Control", "GMixer" and
> "PulseAudio" that are audio related. They are off. I have tried turning
> them on in various combinations of 1, 2 or all three, bu there is no
> difference.
>
> As a workaround I can use the plugin, but I would rather see things
> working as expected.
>
> houghi