Re: media key behavior?

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 21:20 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I was just playing with my new keyboard, and I noticed a
> strange difference between fedora 10 and fedora 11:
> 
> On fedora 10, the mute and volume keys seem to briefly
> pop up a little volume control to reflect the status.
> (As far as I know, I did nothing to configure this
> to happen and I actually wish it wouldn't :-).
> 
> On fedora 11, the same keys do nothing.
> 
> Anyone know what is going on here (and who is arranging
> to hook up those volume keys to something)? Some strange
> hal connection maybe?
> 
> Most of the other extra buttons (with labels like mail
> and search and wot-not) show up in xev as keycodes with
> no associated keysyms.
> 
> Thankfully, the Power and Sleep buttons don't seem to be
> attached to anything :-).

Thinkpad?

Could be related to this, I guess:

http://www.advogato.org/person/mjg59/diary.html?start=205
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