I just got a new keyboard with keys for play, pause, volume up and down. The last 2 don't work. I see the graphics for changing the sound, and the sound for master is changed, but somehow my mainboard does not have a plug for master, only for headphones. How can I configure Gnome to change the Volume of the Headphones when changing the volume? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.2_rc14 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-r2-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP_2200+-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:15:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r14, 2.5.2-r8 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.26 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/mnt/space/gentoo/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going" FEATURES="buildpkg collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" INSTALL_MASK="" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j1 -s" PKGDIR="/mnt/space/gentoo/packages/troy" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/layman/ltsp /usr/local/layman/science /usr/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/layman/java-experimental /usr/local/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/layman/stoile /usr/local/layman/nouveau /usr/local/layman/thousand-parsec" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac aalib acl acpi afs alsa apm audiofile avahi berkdb blas branding bzip2 cairo caps cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl daap dbus doc dri dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo examples exif expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gd gdbm gif gimp gnome gnome-keyring gnuplot gphoto2 gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk hal hardened iconv idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg lapack latex lcms ldap libnotify logrotate lzo mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mono mp3 mpeg mudflap musepack musicbrainz mysql nautilus ncurses nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openal opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs syslog tcl tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tk truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs wmf x86 xattr xface xml xml2 xorg xprint xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="adc65 agfa-cl20 agfa_cl20 aox barbie canon casio casio_qv clicksmart310 digigr8 digita dimagev dimera dimera3500 directory enigma13 fuji gsmart300 hp215 iclick jamcam jd11 kodak kodak_dc120 kodak_dc210 kodak_dc240 kodak_dc3200 kodak_ez200 konica konica_qm150 largan lg_gsm mars minolta mustek panasonic panasonic_coolshot panasonic_dc1000 panasonic_dc1580 panasonic_l859 pccam300 pccam600 polaroid polaroid_pdc320 polaroid_pdc640 polaroid_pdc700 ptp2 ricoh ricoh_g3 samsung sierra sipix sipix_blink sipix_blink2 sipix_web2 smal sonix sony_dscf1 sony_dscf55 sonydscf1 sonydscf55 soundvision spca50x sq905 stv0674 stv0680 sx330z template toshiba toshiba_pdrm11 topfield" DVB_CARDS="dibusb-usb2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
there used to be a bug about that upstream but now I think this is all handled by the sound capplet in control-center. In any way, this is a pure configuration problem and there is nothing we can do to help you here other that throw generic answers. You can probably find some help in user forums or irc channels.
I found a topic in the gnome forums: http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11438 It's from 2006, still no answer.
The sound capplet has a device and tracks listing for chosing what the hardware keys control. Just pick the one that actually works for your device.
Ok, it seems to be in gnome-sound-properties, which is not on my system because the sound use-flag is not enabled. Shouldn't this flag be enabled in the desktop profile?
