Re: Mute button software notification broken after v0.14 for Thinkpad T61

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On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Jerone Young wrote:
> running  Kernel 2.6.24-rc7 (with thinkpad-acpi v0.19) with paramaters:
> 
> acpi_osi="Linux"   -- > Mute button Works! Gnome sees it is pressed.
> 
> acpi_osi="!Linux" --> Mute button NOT seen by Gnome.
> 
> Interesting stuff. Adding acpi_osi="Linux" fixes the problem. Now what
> does this mean is the question :-)

It doesn't surprise me.  Lenovo added "Linux-friendly" behaviour to the
firmware, and we just found its trigger.

Time to alert the others, and bring it up on linux-acpi, as we will have to
always define Linux as an OSI string for ThinkPads.

-- 
  "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

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