On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 06 Oct 2011, Keng-Yü Lin wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh >> <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Keng-Yu Lin wrote: >> >> The mute key on SL410/SL510 only works when the alsa volume mixer >> >> is not enabled. This patch makes the alsa volume mixer disabled >> >> on the matched SL410/SL510 EC versions. >> > >> > I'd like more data on this. Is this some sort of weird interaction with >> > userspace, or does the firmware actually changes behaviour when we >> > enable the MUTE HKEY event in the event mask? >> >> The firmware does not change its behaviour with the key enabled in the keymask. >> The mute key (and the LED on it) of the two models works good without >> thinkpad_acpi loaded. So in the patch I like to exclude the volume >> control part for the two models. > > If the firmware does not change behaviour, doesn't that mean the bug is > elsewhere? > > Is the firmware reporting these keys somewhere else (e.g. through the > keyboard)? > As the users reported in https://launchpad.net/bugs/595896, there is no KEY_MUTE either from thinkpad_acpi nor the keyboard when pressing the mute hotkey. (I do not really possess the hardware. but just debugged/helped remotely). It will be really appreciated if there is any suggestion/insight for looking into the bug. At the moment I can just find this fix for the issue. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
