On Thursday 24 May 2018 23:18:01 Dan Youngquist wrote:
> On 05/24/2018 12:47 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> > Dan, have you looked for firmware for your laptop?
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.  You must've missed my original post.  The audio
> works; it's just the buttons that don't work correctly, and only in
> Trinity. Everything works fine in XFCE.  So not a firmware issue.

an idea from futanari...
kmix is just an applet right?
try using an other applet that controll sound in trinity.
something light weight that will not pull half of kde or gnome with it.