Comment 0 for bug 76091

Binary package hint: kdeutils

First: the volume keys (volume up, volume down, mute) work fine.

Using a Thinkpad T41p with Kubuntu 6.10 I had to install kmilo-legacy and enable it in the KDE control centre. That apparently was the only way to get on-screen display messages for brightness changes, Thinklight toggles or Fn-Spacebar (zoom, configure for ksnapshot). Prior to that I made sure the nvram module was loaded, that udev assigns it the correct group and permissions and that my user was part of the nvram group:

crw-rw---- 1 root nvram 10, 144 2006-12-17 06:26 /dev/nvram

This bug has probably been reported already (a forum post on ubuntuforums.org indicates that) but I couldn't find it, I'm afraid.

This starts another problem: the generic kmilo plugin apparently interferes with kmilo-legacy when changing volume; the volume bar jumps around quite a bit, e.g. from 100% to 73% to 86%, and so on in that fashion. This problem is related or similar to bug #61822 and #51537 (most Thinkpads have hardware sound mixing and do not need any software mixer to change volume or mute) and a very unfortunate situation.