What is the difference between PCM and Front in kmix?

[growbag]

I actually put that line in there myself (model=laptop), I learned that a while back for getting the speakers to mute when plugging headphones in .

I'll give your better suggestions a go though and report back.

Thanks .

Actually the biggest problem I'm having at the moment is the mixer forgetting the (laptop) keys that I assign to it on each reboot, extremely annoying!

I get no on-screen feedback either like I did under 10.3, well, the little red mute icon comes on when I press mute, but no volume feedback .

But I guess that's a SUSE problem, not an ALSA problem.

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by wehrmacht

the biggest problem I'm having at the moment is the mixer forgetting the (laptop) keys that I assign to it on each reboot, extremely annoying! I get no on-screen feedback either like I did under 10.3, well, the little red mute icon comes on when I press mute, but no volume feedback . But I guess that's a SUSE problem, not an ALSA problem.

I do not think saving your key definition is an alsa function. Typically save alsa settings, one will type with root permissions:
alsactl store

But as noted, I do not believe this is an alsa function for your case.

[Lysdestic]

Actually the biggest problem I'm having at the moment is the mixer forgetting the (laptop) keys that I assign to it on each reboot, extremely annoying!

I get no on-screen feedback either like I did under 10.3, well, the little red mute icon comes on when I press mute, but no volume feedback .

I was having a problem with my volume up\down\mute keys being forgotten on reboot when I was setting them with KMix, after I used keytouch to set them, they saved - and it gives on screen notification when they arre used.

[growbag]

I tried keytouch, but it didn't work .

Well, it worked to some extent, but not with kmix. I downloaded, compiled and installed the kmix plugin but still no go.

Maybe because I'm using kde4-1 beta. I also have a problem with my arrow keys in terminal, very annoying!

Oh well, thanks for the help anyway .

[Lysdestic]

You should even have to configure the shortcuts in kmix - it bypasses that with the volume control, at least from the way I have it figured out.

I didn't need to install a KMix plugin either. This is on KDE 4 beta for me as well.

I basically figured out keytouch myself, so I could be doing something odd, but it worked for me.

Open up keytouch, find a laptop similar to yours. I found that just about all of the Dell Inspiron laptops worked for me, despite the different keycodes. Doing that should do the trick, or it did for me at least. Experiment, play around with it - or maybe someone else here has better solutions for using keytouch.