Re: Toshiba satellite L750-170 locking up

2013-02-14 Thread Chris Evans
- Original Message - > From: "Jakub Ambrożewicz" > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 7:37:20 PM > Subject: Re: Toshiba satellite L750-170 locking up > > Dnia 2013-02-14, czw o godzinie 09:22 +, Chris Evans pisze: > > What happens is that the mach

Re: Toshiba satellite L750-170 locking up

2013-02-14 Thread Jakub Ambrożewicz
Dnia 2013-02-14, czw o godzinie 09:22 +, Chris Evans pisze: > What happens is that the machine is running fine and then locks > completely. It's happened three times now in the last 24 hours, once > when I was at the machine, twice when I wasn't. The screen stays on > and on the first occasio

Re: Multimedia/Volume Keys Not Working

2013-02-14 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 02:43:02PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: > So the keys are being recognised with xev, just not picked up by > WindowMaker Should they? if not, try xbindkeys. > (My understanding is that xbindkeys is used when say XF86AudioMute > doesn't correspond to muting the sound.) xbindke

Re: Multimedia/Volume Keys Not Working

2013-02-14 Thread Harvey Kelly
On 14 February 2013 14:31, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 01:57:25PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: >> I'm reluctant to label this as 'solved' as it seems the problem lays >> with WindowMaker/WPrefs, meaning I have to put these three commands... >> amixer set Master 2%+ >> amixer

Re: Multimedia/Volume Keys Not Working

2013-02-14 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 01:57:25PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: > I'm reluctant to label this as 'solved' as it seems the problem lays > with WindowMaker/WPrefs, meaning I have to put these three commands... > > amixer set Master 2%+ > amixer set Master 2%- > amixer set Master toggle > > ... in men

Re: Multimedia/Volume Keys Not Working

2013-02-14 Thread Harvey Kelly
Just an update... > On 12 February 2013 20:08, Bob Proulx wrote: >> You didn't say what laptop model you have but my ThinkPad needs the >> 'tpb' (think pad buttons) package installed to handle those >> functions. > It's a Compaq Presario CQ70 - I haven't been able to find anything on > it/its mul

Toshiba satellite L750-170 locking up

2013-02-14 Thread Chris Evans
Following on from my earlier post, I fear I'm not at all in the clear with Debian (squeeze with backports) on this machine. What's now happening happened when I had Ubuntu 12.04 on it for a while before its hard disc died completely so one thing I can say is that, assuming it IS the same issue,