Laptop volume control

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Hello,

This is my first time running Opensuse. I am on 11.2 using KDE. I installed from the Live disc. I wanted a change from Debian based distros so that I could learn RPM, so I switched to SuSE. All is well except one annoyance; I can’t get the volume keys on the keyboard to work. Sound works, but the keyboard keys do nothing. I cannot set them anywhere else.

Help would be greatly appreciated. This is the only distro (out of many) where this hasn’t worked.

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It might be helpful to supply more details about your computer, as the solution will be hardware specific. Brand/model? I don’t know for sure, but it might be a matter of configuring the correct keyboard layout.

This info may be helpful too:

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AudioTroubleshooting

Check out ‘Configuring a laptops multimedia keys’ section.