[HOWTO] Fix for Stuck Volume/Multimedia Keys

[ztrange]

That's odd, just yesterday I used the fix 1 to correct the problem in my laptop. I had just formated and reinstalled everything, I did it with the latest updates for everything...

What exactly did you do?

[ThinkDave]

Tried both methods it configures but when it comes to making the package it halts on those errors like the other poster i hard coded the version information in but that only created other errors later on. I'm assuming I'm missing a dependency or something. Whilst its not a brand new install it was a fresh install of Ibex a few months back and I really don't want to have to wipe it and start again.
I think I'm using the proposed updates could that be causing a conflict?

[kyle.p]

I was having errors like this as well:

evdev.c:1443: error: ‘PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR’ undeclared here (not in a function)
evdev.c:1443: error: ‘PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR’ undeclared here (not in a function)
evdev.c:1443: error: ‘PACKAGE_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL’ undeclared here (not in a function)

This is on a fresh install of 8.10, minutes after fully updating everything (160 updates.. wow that took a long time!). I was previously having the same issues in Fedora on my other partition, was pretty frustrated that it was happening in Ubuntu (although expected, considering the nature of the problem).

I got "METHOD 1" to work by just defining PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR, PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR and PACKAGE_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL in evdev_fix/src/evdev.c as below:

/*******************************/
/*change this if does not work */
#define PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR 1
#define PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR 2
#define PACKAGE_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL 0
/*******************************/

I placed it in the section "evdev flags" underneath the line:

#define COMPOSEFLAG	16

That should be about line 93...

There was another error afterwards (I think it had to do with man files?) but I ignored that and continued.

Honestly, I don't know enough to say if this will cause any issues later. I got frustrated and took the risk myself.

Hope this helps and thanks for the post! I can finally use my computer without accidentally cranking up the volume to max, and having my xorg mess up as well!

-Kyle

[ktemkin]

I think it's yet again another dependency problem. I believe you're missing the set of macros that define these parameters.

I know on several other distributions it's called 'xorg-macros' or 'util-macros', but I thought it was obsoleted in newer releases of X.

[kyle.p]

Thanks for the info ktemkin. I will look into this a little further.

I would rather I fix this properly rather than just slapping lipstick on it as I had done.

In the meantime, do you know if there would be any harm in not having xorg-macros? I can't really seem to find too much information on it.

-k

[ThinkDave]

Thanks ktemkin it was missing xutils-dev (which contains the macros) so probably good idea to add that to the original post.

Edit: Fixxxxxxed! ahhh thanks for that accidentally hitting the volume control was a nightmare.

[sopak]

Thousand thanks, it worked wonderfully on my Toshiba U300-11Z. I used the Method 1.

[jachavezd]

Thanks a lot, method one worked like a charm.

[falconstd71]

By Method 1 works Perfeclty. Thanks a lot.

[polyplay26]

I tried method 1 with the following error:
make
...
evdev.c:1000: error: too few arguments to function ‘XIRegisterPropertyHandler’
make[2]: *** [evderev.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/paul/evdev_fix/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/paul/evdev_fix'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Please help!

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