Re: Does volume control work on your thinkpad?

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On Sun, 08 Jul 2007, Antti P Miettinen wrote:
> > Does volume control work fine in your thinkpads?  If not, could you test it
> > the same way you guys tested the brightness issue?
> > 
> > The EC offset is 0x30, the CMOS commands are 0 (down), 1 (up), 2 (mute).
> 
> The value in EC offset reflects the volume and the CMOS commands
> work. The gnome on screen display is not always in sync with the EC

Ok, so volume is working almost correctly.  Please check if byte 0x60 of
NVRAM is showing the correct volume.  The NVRAM is supposed to be kept
up-to-date by the BIOS through the CMOS commands...

> value, but I have not looked into why - which gnome component takes
> care of the volume OSD?

Maybe things are not 100% correct in NVRAM...

> > Also, I just sent a new release to sf.net, which should fix brightness in
> > your thinkpads for good.  Please test it and report back.
> 
> I'm running the default feisty kernel and it seems that the patch
> needs some tweaking for the ubuntu 2.6.20 kernel sources so this will
> take some time - sorry.

There will be a patch for latest 2.6.20 in sf.net in 20 minutes.

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