Version: (using KDE 4.2.2) OS: Linux Installed from: SuSE RPMs Volume control works now in KDE4, but only until I enable the handling of keyboard layout management in the country and region section of KDE settings. Just enabling the keyboard layout management immediately disables the volume keys, so that they remain disabled even after disabling the layout management. I have to restart X after disabling layout management in order to re-enable the multimedia keys. However, there is a good workaround: When I change the keyboard model to microsoftpro, just like in xorg.conf, it fixes the problem. In the future, KDE might be aware of the current X configuration, and select the appropriate keyboard model as default.
See: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442384
I can confirm - this happens also in KDE 4.3 BETA 1.
It's solved in KDE 4.3.1 (or at least in openSUSE 11.2). Kuba, can you confirm this (preferably on a different distribution)?
I ll let you know in a month when I install os 11.2.
In 4.5 the Keyboard config UI first time will load current keyboard model from x.org