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I have the exact same problem. I Have a Microsoft Wireless Multimedia-keyboard. I also have an nForce2-system, with the audio connected to digital-out. So no mixers work for my board (as far as regulating volume goes.) Therefore I have mapped the volume-keys to dcop-calls and let amaroK change the volume-setting. That used to work as a charm.
My kde-installation is from CVS, and even if I go in to kdemutlimedia/kmix and issue a "make uninstall" kmix still tries to "hi-jack" the volume-keys. Only now I get a box stating "It seems as if Kmix isn't running" (or something like that).

Any light on the subject would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,
Fredrik

I found the "problem". It is caused by Kmilo, started by kded. To disable kmilo, go to the service menu in the settings-central and disable the service.

I have a similar problem. I'm using KDE 3.5.2 and FC5

In previous versions of fedora, pressing the volume buttons in kde would result in the audio volume changing, and a progress bar appearing to tell me about it. Now, the volume doesn't change and I get a grey box with the message "It seems that KMix is not running", even though KMix is running! If I quit KMix, then pressing the buttons will cause KMix to actually start, and then the same message pops up telling me that KMix is not running.

So now there are 2 questions:

(1) Is there some way to fix this and get the volume buttons to work with KMix?

(2) If not, the next best option would be to disable these hotkeys and reasign them to something else, like the sound mixer panel applet, but I can't find a simple way to uncouple these keys from kmix. The last reply suggested to remove kmilo: could anyone tell me what kmilo is supposed to do before I remove it and find even more problems?

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Originally posted by kamikaze_jack
I have a similar problem. I'm using KDE 3.5.2 and FC5

In previous versions of fedora, pressing the volume buttons in kde would result in the audio volume changing, and a progress bar appearing to tell me about it. Now, the volume doesn't change and I get a grey box with the message "It seems that KMix is not running", even though KMix is running! If I quit KMix, then pressing the buttons will cause KMix to actually start, and then the same message pops up telling me that KMix is not running.

My question for you is, how did your keyboard work like that right off the shelf? I use KDE 3.5.1/2 and FC5 with a Microsoft Wireless Comfort keyboard. I had to manually configure all the extra keys (including the media keys) using ~/.xmodmap to get them to work. I know of an alternatve, which is to choose one of the predefined keyboard types from KDE Control Centre, but even that does not default to a media keyboard.

Beats me how it works... Acutally, I think it's because I also have a mouse with extra media buttons, which is set up using xmodmap, and I think the volume buttons on the keyboard and mouse use the same keycodes, so by setting up the mouse I inadvertantly set up the keyboard at the same time. Anyway, it seems to be done through xmodmap. I've tried removing kmilo, but then I can't get the buttons to do anything at all.

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Originally posted by kamikaze_jack
Beats me how it works... Acutally, I think it's because I also have a mouse with extra media buttons, which is set up using xmodmap, and I think the volume buttons on the keyboard and mouse use the same keycodes, so by setting up the mouse I inadvertantly set up the keyboard at the same time. Anyway, it seems to be done through xmodmap. I've tried removing kmilo, but then I can't get the buttons to do anything at all.

Would you mind doing me a favour? Could you open KDE Control Centre, choose "Regional & Accessibility" --> "Keyboard Layout" and see if any particular keyboard layout is chosen? The choice should be greyed out by default, but I could have been wrong.

"Enable keyboard layouts" is greyed out.

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Originally posted by kamikaze_jack
"Enable keyboard layouts" is greyed out.

Thanks for trying. Interesting... so your media buttons work right out of the box. That's amazing.

I don't think all of them work, but the volume keys send out XF86AudioRaise/LowerVolume. The internet keys (forward/back etc) only send out some hex numbers, not the proper keysyms, but it's still possible to map most of them to shortcuts.