volume keybindings

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:49:53 +0000, Steve Searle wrote:

> Around 02:18am on Monday, December 21, 2009 (UK time), Amadeus W.M.
> scrawled:
> 
>> Sorry to say, but I had to uninstall pulseaudio yet again. So I'm back
>> to alsa and I feel much better. Except that my <Alt>Page-up/down
>> shortcuts don't work anymore. I guess they used to control pulse
>> volume. Does anyone know how to bind the sound keyboard shortcuts to
>> the alsa mixer? I'm guessing I have to do something in gconf-editor,
>> but I don't know the magic words.
> 
> For Gnome, System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts?
> 

That's if you have pulseaudio installed. If you don't, you can set your 
keyboard shortcuts all you want, they won't do anything. Unless you bind 
them somehow to alsa.