Problems with additional laptop buttons

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I use opensuse 11.3/gnome on lenovo sl-510. I have the problem. The laptop doesn’t reacts on some of additional buttons like wireless on/off or cover sensor. Xev doesn’t reacts as well. Everything worked untill I removed and reistalled pulseaudio and some other packs. The questions are:

  1. what could I do to make a problem - did I killed some daemon of smth - I just can’t remember;
  2. how to fix it?

thanks

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Welcome to the forum. :slight_smile: Did you install 64bit 11.3?

I have an SL510. ACPI support is not good. It has IdeaPad firmware, and that means thinkpad-acpi driver cannot be used. For example, this affects function keys, special buttons and leds, LCD brightness control, bluetooth on/off, and probably the “cover sensor”. However, ACPI modules for battery, processor, thermal, and video seem to work.

If you haven’t already, try the command acpi -V in the gnome terminal as normal user, to get battery, thermal, and ac status. Does it work?

I haven’t used gnome on this m/c yet, but 64bit 11.3/KDE 4.4.4 (comes with PulseAudio disabled in YaST) works reasonably well, except those things I mentioned.

What isn’t working now on your system, apart from those things I have mentioned?

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64bit - yes.

acpi -V
Battery 1: charged, 5%
Thermal 1: ok, 48.0 degrees C
AC Adapter 1: off-line
and the sick thing is that it was taken at ac connected, battery stays at 5% for 30 min already = ac plug sensor also fallen.

the point is, it worked, all buttons worker well untill I’ve done smth, and I don’t know what was that…

could it fail after some routine update?

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by the way, how can I mak a cleanup to remove som parts of removed packages?

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For clarity, are you saying that everything on the SL510 worked on 11.3 Gome after the original install?

As you cannot remember what you did, it might be better to reinstall. That’s what I would do.

I haven’t had your problem with battery monitoring. Example with ac adapter plugged in:

     Battery 1: charged, 98%
     Thermal 1: ok, 46.0 degrees C
  AC Adapter 1: on-line

However there seems to be a power management problem with ac adapter plug/unplug. The problem on KDE is also being experienced on ThinkPad Edge, see this very recent thread, mine is described here in post #4.

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>For clarity, are you saying that everything on the SL510 worked on 11.3 Gome after the original install?
yes it does

DO NOT WANT reinstall actually…

I think, that ac plug is tha same problem as the rest, ie plug sensor doesn’t works, so system think, it’s on battery while it’s on ac.

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the biggest thing i did was uninstall of pulseaudio, install alsamixer, uninstall alsa, install pulse, then, after reboot i guess, the buttons failed.

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Including the special function keys? You may be the first to ever claim this on the internet.

I think, that ac plug is tha same problem as the rest, ie plug sensor doesn’t works, so system think, it’s on battery while it’s on ac.
The plug sensor works, but you have to unplug/replug to get the power management s/w to update its status (on KDE anyway).

BTW, I don’t think it’s possible to safely remove P/A from Gnome as the system requires it. I guess you found that out.

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Precisely, which buttons failed?

Do you have any sound/audio working?

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ok now
i’ve been fed up trying found anything so i unistalled pulse and alsa and you nkow what? everything works fine!
the next step is proper audio installation i guess :)))

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Ok, as long as those buttons work - that’ s everything, eh. Now all you need is the s/w to use them. :wink: