Dell Inspiron 9400 multimedia keys not properly detected

[Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín]

Binary package hint: hotkey-setup

Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop.

Launch music player: 0xed
Volume mute: 0xa0
Volume down: 0xae
Volume up: 0xb0
Play/pause: 0xa2
Stop playback: 0xa4
Previous track: 0x90
Next track: 0x99

$ sudo dmidecode -s system-manufacturer
Dell Inc.

$ sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
MP061

$ sudo dmidecode -s system-version
Not Specified

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 31 04:35:54 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux snifer-laptop 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín (snifer)]

Volume keys (mute, up, down) are properly configured by default. For the other mentioned keys to work, you have to manually do it in System -> Preferences -> Keyboard shortcuts.

Other hotkeys (Fn+something) are properly configured.

[Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín (snifer)]

In gutsy tribe 1 all keys are automatically configured, except "Launch music player". It has to be done manually in gnome-keybinding-properties.
hotkey-setup version: 0.1-17ubuntu10.

[Nicolás Schubert (nischg)]

I'm running Tribe 5 on an Inspiron 6400 and my mute and volume keys are not working. They are recognized but they don't function properly. If I press Mute the notification icon appears on my desktop but the system doesn't mute. The same with Volume keys, the notification icon appears but the sound is not changed neither up nor down.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug, I'll fix that with the next upload

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

gnome-control-center (1:2.20.0.1-0ubuntu2) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Don't drop the revision uploaded during the freeze
  * debian/capplets-data.gconf-defaults:
    - set the music player key correctly (LP: #99335)
  * debian/patches/95_desktop-effects-integration.patch:
    - patch update from Mirco Müller
    - "trimmed down diff against capplets/appearance/data/appearance.glade
      (restricting it to just the "Visual Effects"-tab) in order to fix
      http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480667" (LP: #145270)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:57:19 +0200