Intrepid broke my laptop's mute button.
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
New
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: alsa-utils
I run Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron E1505. This comes with some volume control buttons on the front side of the keyboard. When I was running Hardy, the mute button, volume-up button, and volume-down buttons worked. Now that I upgraded to Intrepid, the mute button no longer works, although the volume-up and volume-down buttons are still fine.
Note that I can still mute and unmute through all of the usual GUI interfaces. I believe that the interface between these buttons and GNOME is handled through the Keyboard Shortcuts, which I find under System -> Preferences. This describes the mute button as XF86AudioMute, which may or may not be what it called the mute button under Hardy. (The volume-down and volume-up buttons, which work, are called XF86LowerVolume and XF86RaiseVolume.) If I set a new Keyboard Shortcut by pressing the mute button, it returns XF86AudioMute again, but the button still doesn't work.
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I have a similar problem (maybe this has to do with it):
I used my volume-up and volume-down to lower or higher the volume. And in Hardy I used "shift-volumeup" and "shift-volumedown" to go to the next/previous track. The combinations don't work in Intrepid any more. Maybe your mute button uses internally a combination which causes the fail.