Re: acpi problem

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

On 8/3/2013 2:07 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:

> My Acer 7520G has got a volume knob aside, and when I turn it, volume is 
> getting higher or lower (it is just a digitally stepping wheel).
> 
> But in my syslog I find thus messages:
> 
> Aug  3 08:58:38 localhost logger: acpid: action VOLUP is not defined
> Aug  3 08:58:38 localhost logger: acpid: action VOLUP is not defined
> Aug  3 08:58:40 localhost logger: acpid: action VOLDN is not defined
> Aug  3 08:58:40 localhost logger: acpid: action VOLDN is not defined
> 
> How can I avoid this messages? I suppose, it is a misconfiguration of acpi. 
> Must I find out, which keycode this wheel does and then define it in some config?

Reading and understanding the following may get you closer to your goal,
specifically the section on volume control:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acpid

-- 
Stan