Re: [PATCH] Fix mute key on older Thinkpads by OSI blacklisting them

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On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 01:28:11PM -0500, Jerone Young wrote:

> I think it's not really possible to get it correct with thinkpad-acpi .
> The reason is the userspace sound server. In our case it's pulse audio.
> So we are no longer just dealing with ALSA anymore. So if the OS gets a
> proper hotkey event it is able to mute at the pulse audio level then,
> pulse audio does work at the ALSA level (toggling the mixer).
> thinkpad-acpi has no way to check on the status of pulse audio.

This really isn't a problem. We have a mixer device for the Thinkpad's 
own mixer, and we can send ALSA events to indicate that its state has 
changed.
 
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