Logitech Internet 350 keyboard - music key dont work

[Fred]

Keyboard: Logitech Internet 350
Connection: USB

$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:c313 Logitech, Inc.

It has 8 multimedia keys.
1. music -- DOES NOT work
2. mail -- works
3. home -- works
4. calculator -- works
5. play/pause -- works
6. lower volume -- works
7. raise volume -- works
8. mute -- works

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

Also, I had to goto System->Keyboard and change keyboard model from Generic to Logitech Internet 350 keyboard.
It didn't automatically do this for me.

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

The first key, the key with a music symbol is detected as XF86Tools.
I suspect maybe it should be detected as XF86AudioMedia.

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

It ought to open Rhythmbox.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Is this still occurring on Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx"?

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

Yes, the music button still seems todo nothing in 10.04.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

Hotkey handling, such as volume and suspend keys, involves multiple packages. Please take a look at [1], follow the Step-by-step Troubleshooting and comment back here your findings.

Please also add the files mentioned in "Useful Information to Collect in Reports" as separate attachments.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys/Troubleshooting

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

Warning: Could not load keyboard geometry for :0
                  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
                  Resulting keymap file will not describe geometry

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

I run:
xev | sed -n 's/^.*state \([0-9].*\), keycode *\([0-9]\+\) *\(.*\), .*$/keycode \2 = \3, state = \1/p'

It says:
keycode 179 = (keysym 0x1008ff81, XF86Tools), state = 0x0
keycode 179 = (keysym 0x1008ff81, XF86Tools), state = 0x0

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

gconftool --recursive-list /desktop/gnome/sound
 default_mixer_tracks = []
 enable_esd = true
 default_mixer_device =
 theme_name = ubuntu
 event_sounds = true
 input_feedback_sounds = false

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

gconftool --recursive-list /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/keybindings
 volume_down = XF86AudioLowerVolume
 media = XF86AudioMedia
 screensaver = <Control><Alt>l
 home = XF86Explorer
 pause = XF86AudioPause
 search = XF86Search
 touchpad = XF86TouchpadToggle
 volume_up = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
 email = XF86Mail
 previous = XF86AudioPrev
 help =
 stop = XF86AudioStop
 power = <Control><Alt>Delete
 eject = XF86Eject
 next = XF86AudioNext
 volume_mute = XF86AudioMute
 www = XF86WWW
 play = XF86AudioPlay
 calculator = XF86Calculator

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!