'Twas brillig, and Andrew Lutomirski at 23/05/11 18:21 did gyre and gimble: > What is the kernel supposed to do to get PulseAudio to DTRT? On some, > but not (I think) all, models, we can disable hardware mixer control > and make all of the buttons act like ordinary buttons, but that will > cause the light (if present) to malfunction, and I don't know if all > models can do this. So as it stands, PulseAudio would have to > understand that the mixer is special and watch for ALSA change > notifications. > > I'm willing to change the thinkpad-acpi driver to make it work better, > but I know nothing at all about PulseAudio internals. What should I > do? Can you give some more details? e.g. does it show up under the same alsa card as the HDA or is it separate? amixer -c0 (or appropriate number) would be useful to begin with :) Thanks Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]