[ltp] acpi volume has no effect on x61s

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:00:37 -0300


On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Amit Ramon wrote:
> version). I'm trying to control the sound volume by echoing different
> commands into /proc/acpi/ibm/volume, but this doesn't have any effect

You only have MUTE control.  Nothing else.  Lenovo neutered the built-in
mixer, so it is simply not there.  And I don't recall right now if MUTE
control over the EC works on recent Lenovo laptops.

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