[Debian-eeepc-devel] trouleshooting fn+f7

[Robson]

Raevol wrote:
> So here's my issue. I have eeepc-acpi-scripts installed, and the OSD
> for them working. My volume up/down keys work, but my mute one
> doesn't. It shows the Audio On/Off message, but nothing actually gets
> muted. The strange thing is when I open xfce4-mixer and press the
> buttons the volume slider for Front, which is what I have the buttons
> set to in /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts, works as expected, but
> still nothing is muted when I hit fn-f7. I've been googling this
> intermittently for a while, and I seem to remember seeing something
> about the mute key needing to control the PCM channel, but when I set
> that in my /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts file instead of Front, the
> volume keys work and the mute key still doesn't, the only difference
> being that it shows just "Audio" for the OSD when pressing it.
>
> Any ideas? It was suggested on irc to:
>
> (09:29:38 AM) SynrG: try to figure out the exact command being called
> and do it from the command line
> (09:30:05 AM) SynrG: then check the doc for the command to ensure
> we're doing it correctly
>
> But I'm too much of a noob to know how to do that. :[ If someone wants
> to take the time to point me in the right direction I can poke around
> with it though.
>
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I need to change the script(/etc/acpi/actions/hotkey.sh) on my machine 
to work the mute key.
amixer -q set "$VOLUME_LABEL" mute
I've changed something like "toggle" to "mute" at the end of line above.