[ltp] Mute button toggle

[Eben King]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, James Knott wrote:

> Ignacio Fernández Galván wrote:
> > 
> > My R51 has a mute volume button. When I press it, the sound is muted.
> > But  it does not toggle, to "unmute" the volume I have to press vol+ or
> > vol-.  Is it possible to change this behaviour and make the mute button
> > toggle?  Maybe with an acpi script?
> 
> As I recall, my R31 does the same.  However, there's one advantage to
> this way.  If sound is turned off, and you go to turn it on and don't
> hear anything, does that mean there's no sound or perhaps the volume is
> turned down or ...?  By using the volume buttons to restore the sound,
> you know you're not accidentally turning the sound off.

OTOH, there's no way to make sure it's not muted except by (maybe) changing 
the level.

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