On Sat, 14 May 2011, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > I think that on Windows on everything older than X220, pressing mute > unconditionally mutes the sound, so it's a nice way to tell the system > "don't make noise, regardless of what current settings are." Yay, so the thinkpads have been un-dumbeddown. I love uplifting! > The behavior I implemented reads the default from BIOS so that we do > the right thing (or at least the thing that Lenovo intended) on all of Does the BIOS have a setup "control" for the user to chose MUTE behaviour? > Later on, maybe we could convince PulseAudio to notice the mixer we > expose and do something even nicer (like show a hardware mute OSD). *PLEASE* do. I once talked with the ALSA guys about actually doing a piggyback mixer control and attaching it to the HDA/AC97 mixer of the internal soundcard, but it was not exactly easy or kosher to do that at that level. -- "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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
