Re: multi-media key "mute" no longer recognized

Let's try to cc some people...

On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:52:24 +0100
Toralf Förster [off-list ref] wrote:

With kernel 3.1.10 I could mute my system by pressing the appropriate 
multimedia button either at my ThinkPad or at my external keyboard.
With 3.2.1 this doesn't work anymore although the button itself is recognized 
when pressed (checked with xev).

Now I'm wondering where to start to debug ?

In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42685 Toralf wrote:

quoted

with xev I get only one small diff related to "serial":

tfoerste@n22 ~ $ tail -v mute-3.*
==> mute-3.0.21 <==
KeyRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x4600001,
root 0xc3, subw 0x0, time 293494, (1260,275), root:(1262,298),
state 0x0, keycode 121 (keysym 0x1008ff12, XF86AudioMute), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
XFilterEvent returns: False


==> mute-3.2.6 <==
KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x3a00001,
root 0xc3, subw 0x0, time 3424766, (-1217,745), root:(74,768),
state 0x0, keycode 121 (keysym 0x1008ff12, XF86AudioMute), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
XFilterEvent returns: False