For anyone keeping up with this thread. Also just to add on it's not a specific KDE or Gnome thing as both display the issue when running on kernels greater then 2.6.22 . They are not picking up the mute key press. On Jan 9, 2008 8:49 PM, Jerone Young <jerone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ok it appears you are correct. > > So running the following tests: > > 1) Kernel 2.6.22.15 (with thinkpad-acpi v0.19) = Works great Gnome can see > > mute button pressed > > 2) Kernel 2.6.24-rc7 (with thinkpad-acpi v0.19) = Gnome does NOT see > mute is pressed > Mute > button is not recogonized when try to > > associate it with a keyboard action > using > gnome-keybing-properties > > So something changed around 2.6.23 that for some reason this version > of the firmware is not passing the key scan code up the stack. Yet it > is still muting the voulme (which is very odd). > > This is the latest firmware that Lenovo is offering (released 12/06/07). > > Do you happen to know what would cause this? Very odd that the same > firmware can do something fine on one kernel and not work on others. > > Thanks for the help and quick willingness to look into the problem. > > > On Jan 9, 2008 6:57 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 09 Jan 2008, Jerone Young wrote: > > > I've seen someone post this on the list and I recently did thorough testing. > > > > > > The issue is that the mute button cannot notify software (in my case > > > Gnome) that it has been pressed. But it still mutes the volume. > > > > > > This was blamed on Lenovo firmware but this is not the case. It is > > > thinkpad-acpi that appears to be at fault. > > > > That would be surprising... but let's narrow it down, if it is something in > > thinkpad-acpi, then I can fix it :-) > > > > If 2.6.22 does not have the problem, it is easy to test new thinkpad-acpi: > > just get thinkpad-acpi 0.19 from ibm-acpi.sf.net, and patch 2.6.22.15 with > > it. > > > > It is *also* possible that the bug in the firmware is indeed there, and > > later thinkpad-acpi causes gnome to notice it because HAL decides to trust > > the firmware and, eg., stops looking in the NVRAM for mute button presses. > > We will discover if that's the case easily enough as well. > > > > > I can do more testing later to see if v0.15 displays the issue, then > > > can narrow down what patch broke this. > > > > Please test 0.19 from ibm-acpi.sf.net. If it causes the issues, I will work > > with you to track down exactly where it breaks. > > > > -- > > "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring > > them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond > > where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot > > Henrique Holschuh > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
