Description of problem: I have a Dell Inspiron 4150 with Fedora Core 5. i8kbuttons daemon doesn't work because if I prees a Fn+Volume Key ocurrs anything (with i8kbuttons running, of course). Nevertheless, I can do Dell Inspiron keys working by assing these keys to volume control in Gnome Preferences. If it's posible (Ubuntu Linux do it) Fedora should detect that it's a Dell Laptop (¿i8k module enabled?) and assign these keys to volume control in Gnome Preferences. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always I press Dell volume control keys. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Press any Dell volume control key 2. Volume doesn't go up or down 3. Actual results: I8kbuttons daemon doesn't work. Expected results: I want control volume in my Dell laptop with keys designed for this. Additional info:
You've filed this bug report against the wrong component... i8kutils is useful for you only because it forces the i8k module to be loaded on your hardware, so you get access to the Dell service tag and are able to control the laptop fans. But i8kbuttons isn't useful on your hardware... So if you want the Fedora Core installer or GNOME to automatically detect multimedia keys and enable them... it's to be done elsewhere, and I don't even know if that's possible at all (I doubt it). Please reassign to the proper component, otherwise I'll go ahead and close this report. Currently, what you ask for has to be done "manually" once, by going to "System" -> "Preferences" -> "Keyboard Shortcuts", but I suppose you probably knew that already.
Thank you Matthias. What's the proper component of this bug? i8kutils init script isn't the problem but i8kbuttons. i8kbuttons doesn't work for me. To fix it it's the bug reason. Question about auto-detect Dell Inspiron laptop is secondary. Simply we have to researched how Ubuntu Gnome do it.
I was just pointing out that i8kbuttons isn't the "right solution" for your laptop, it's more of a "hack" for older Dell laptops. What you're requesting doesn't depend on i8kbuttons or i8kutils in any way, it's a much more generic feature request that needs to be implemented somewhere else... where exactly, I don't know. Maybe a good topic to bring up on the fedora-devel mailing-list.
OK. Detecting multimedia keys is a more generic solution. I was just pointing out that there is another Linux distribution that solved this bug (only in Gnome of course). You can change bug status. I'm going to subscribe fedora-devel mailing list (if users no-developers can do it of course).
OK, closing this bug for now.