[solved] Audio Media Keys

[Garthhh]

I'm on a thinkpad t495
Mageia KDE is installed on a nvme plugged into a usb3 port
Sound works
Media keys don't work, the mute light on the speaker & microphone do work
Any keyboard shortcuts I set don't work
Pointing at speaker in system tray, middle click=mute, scroll adjusts
Clicking the speaker opens a drop down that works

[doktor5000]

Media keys don't work, the mute light on the speaker & microphone do work
Any keyboard shortcuts I set don't work
Pointing at speaker in system tray, middle click=mute, scroll adjusts
Clicking the speaker opens a drop down that works

What media keys do you mean, like F1 to F3 for mute and volume up/down ?
Also, what keyboard shortcuts did you set ?

[morgano]

Or are there special keys on your keyboard dedicated for volume etc?

Or press some special key to make other keys have volume etc as secondary function?

[doktor5000]

FWIW there are some default function keys on all thinkpad keyboards, F1 to F12 - see e.g. page 22 in the manual: https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobi ... _v2_en.pdf
Most of them should work out of the box.

[Garthhh]

Thanks for the reply
The keys are both media keys & function keys, media is primary, fn key + f1, f2, f3....
Alt+down, alt+up for shortcuts
f5 & f6 run the brightness as normal
f4 which should mute the microphone, doesn't
The lights [f1,f4]for audio & mute work

[doktor5000]

OK, but which is the one that you want to be working mainly?
From your description, only microphone mute ?

It's probably easiest to run one of the following in a terminal, then press Fn+F4 (or enable Fn lock and only press F4) to see what event the button press creates, and post that here.

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xev

or

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acpi_listen

But seems there might not be a direct fix currently, see e.g. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=268269
Although you can workaround it: https://askubuntu.com/questions/125367/ ... -thinkpads

[doktor5000]

I installed replacement shortcuts when the default media keys didn't work, the media keys are my choice
xev, command not found
acpi_listen yields

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button/mute Mute 00000080 00000000 k
button/volumedown VOLDN 0000080 00000000 k
button/volumeup VOLUP 00000080 00000000 k 

fn locked [OR [OQ with up arrow I don't how to type
holding fn & using the buttons is the same as without fn

[doktor5000]

What do you mean by you installed replacement shortcuts ?
In any case, the mute button seems to be generating the proper event. See the second link in my previous post for some workarounds.

xev, command not found

You may need to install xev beforehand.

[Garthhh]

I went to system settings > shortcuts > audio volume & set secondary shortcuts

since my last post I removed all the shortcuts > rebooted > rechecked the defaults > all working

Thanks for the help

[doktor5000]

Please don't forget to mark the thread as solved, by editing the subject of the first post and prefix it with [SOLVED], thanks in advance.