On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:39:10PM -0400, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > >> I don't have docs so I don't really know. But the mute LED does not >> appear to be controllable from the LED interface and when mute is lit >> there's no sound regardless of what ALSA thinks. When I light the >> micmute light, I can still record sound just fine. >> >> The mic mute button does nothing on Windows unless the special driver >> is installed, and that driver seems to mute the Windows mixer, so I >> think there's nothing special other than a little userspace helper >> going on. > > Hm. That makes things kind of tricky. While it's easy to just expose the > LED, really we want to do it in such a way that userspace knows which > LEDs it should be toggling while setting the microphone mute. One thought: call the thing laptop::micmute and teach userspace to look for an led with that name. Do any of the ALSA or PulseAudio people have any preferences? --Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
