[ltp] detecting hardware mute?

[Mike Kershaw]

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On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:34:28PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Does anyone know a way to detect if a thinkpad is in the "mute" state?
>=20
> Ie, I push the mute button, tpb sets the nvram to mute everything
> (very handy for meetings, etc), but then I would like to have some
> kind of indicator that shows me I have mute on, so I can remember to
> unmute later.=20
>=20
> You can't detect it from mixer settings. possibly there is a way from
> reading /dev/nvram?=20
>=20
> Something that could keep an OSD up about it would be ideal.=20

tpb (thinkpad buttons) does this already, and detects the hw volume
level, gives you a OSD volume display, etc.

-m

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