Hello everyone!
I use EndeavourOS at my laptop (TurboX flame u7-475) for a long time.
When I bought it, it had Windows 10. The keys Fn+F11 used to turn the volume down. The keys Fn+F12 used to turn the volume up.
Now with EndeavourOS (and every linux distro I have installed, including: Manjaro, Garuda, Kali, Ubuntu and mint), when I press Fn+F12, the volume goes at the highest point and when I press Fn+F11 the laptop is completely mute. Also in both cases the keyboard is not working after I press the keys.
Before a couple of days, I installed Ardour. When I use it I have no sound and the keyboard stops working again.
I think its time to fix this problem. Is there anything I can do, or any package to install?
Thank you for your attention!
One possibility I can think of is that (for some reason) after you press Fn+F12 or Fn+F11, the key events repeat indefinitely even though the keys had already been released. That could be why your volume is set to 100% or 0% when you pressed Fn+F12/Fn+F11 (because the key events were repeated even though you had released the keys and the volume kept changing until it reached its limit at the respective ends). One way to test this theory is to temporarily disable the autorepeat feature. If you’re on X11, run:
xset r off
After that test the Fn+F12/Fn+F11 buttons again. Does the volume still turn to max/0 after that? Does the keyboard stop working? (You can turn autorepeat back on with xset r on, btw)
I’m not sure how an application can cause the keyboard to stop working. Is it reproducible every time when using Ardour? If the occurence is random, then I’d be more concerned about hardware issues tbh.
Hello,
You can increase/decrease volume without the keys so you can confirm if the problem is the keys or the volume function.
Check the volume value :
pactl get-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@
Increase volume of 5% :
pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +5%
I ran the command.
Now when I press Fn+F11/Fn+F12 the volume doesn’t go to minimum/maximum.
But unfortunately the keyboard stops working again.
(About Ardour: I have no sound when I use it but when I close the app the laptop is working normally. Also the keyboard is working. That was my mistake. Ardour doesnt didable it or whatever)
So the volume changed accordingly if you turn off auto-repeat. I guess that means my initial hunch was correct.
What if you restart the display server? Does the keyboard resume working after that?
What do you mean to restart the display server?
If you mean to restart the pc, the keyboard is working.
As in you kill the display server process by doing something like sudo pkill X? Note that in your case your keyboard isn’t working, so you will have to log out of your gui session using the mouse.