On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:51:35 +0700 ajaxas <ajaxas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thank you for your fast reply! And it was ultimately useful! > > I should have known better than to trust XFCE, as I've already had my > troubles with it's stupid components interfering with xorg settings. > Following your instructions step by step I installed udev-179 from > testing repository (nothing changed), tried xev (it responded) and > then created new user only to find Brightness control keys working. > > Now I have to find what XFCE component is responsible for this. Probably xfce4-xkb-plugin - it doesn't inherit any current keyboard settings when it switches a layout (note that this isn't necessarily a bug in itself), so perhaps the layout that it applies is somehow bad. > Although I still don't know why my Volume control scan codes differ > from those in module-sony keymap file. Do you have xfce4-volumed (and its dep, keybinder) installed? I don't know what they might be doing (if anything), but perhaps that's a place to start looking... -RW -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html