[ltp] volume button debian/ubuntu

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:56:07 -0300


On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Micha wrote:
> > thinkpad-acpi can mute and directly control the volume of the speaker mixer,
> > try it (/proc/acpi/ibm/volume).
> 
> Had a look at it and it explains a few things. First of all it seems that my
> machine stopped generating acpi events (at least through /proc/acpi/event) for
> the volume keys. I'm getting the keys directly. Is this a driver feature or
> some system setting?

What machine and BIOS version?  The mixer stuff *is* different for T61 and
later.

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