After starting Gnome, the special keys for volume up/down/mute do not have any effect. However, after invoking gnome-keybinding-properties and re-assigning the same keys (XF86AudioMute, XF86AudioLowervolume, XF86AudioRaiseVolume) to the same actions (Volume mute, Volume down, Volume up) as they are already registered, they will work, until the next Gnome restart. This is reproducible at will, and happens since I updated from Gnome 2.10 to Gnome 2.14. Here is my emerge --info: Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:50:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" LANG="en_US@euro" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://einstein.mknet.prv/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa apache2 arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd exif f77 flac foomaticdb fortran gcj gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 iconv imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 irda isdnlog jack java jpeg kerberos kernel_linux lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod mmx motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia oci8 ogg opengl oracle oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session sms spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa vorbis wma wmf xfce xml xorg xprint xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Gnome 2.16 and newer don't show that problem. If they do for you, don't hesitate to reopen this bug. Thanks :)
I now upgraded to Gnome 2.16, and unfortunately, the issue is not fixed. What can I do to examine the cause to more detail? Maik
Gnome 2.18 works fine as well. multimedia keys are sent through dbus now. Major Gnome apps have been modified to work with this new interface.
I recently had a complete lockup of gnome-session after a call to the gnome theme manager and had to delete my .gconf directory. After recreating everything, my volume keys finally worked, which they didn't right after the 2.18 upgrade.
