[ltp] hotkey_mask on t40 with thinkpad-acpi 0.18-20071013

[Jan Taegert]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh schrieb:

>> You're right, actually I need it only to link the volume buttons to
>> alsamixer/gnome-volume-control. As far as I know the signal from the

> You cannot do that in a way that will work right now.  You would control the
> volume output twice (unless you are using the output of a dock or extender,
> which is not subject to the internal thinkpad mixer), but that reduces the
> number of levels in half and can cause some nastiness...

That's a pity. I was hoping there would be a more elegant solution...
If I understood everything correctly there is on a t40 no possibility to
use the <official> volume buttons (i.e. setting volume mute) in a way
that the relevant software (mixer, etc.) knows about it (i.e. alsamixer
shows output as muted)? [/proc/acpi/ibm/volume] shows always the right
(given by bios) volume, right? It's possible to link this value with an
alsa-ctl device??

> Are you using Ubuntu?

No, it's Debian (unstable), but the infrastructure should be almost the
same.

Thanks,
jan.