[ltp] Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] thinkpad-acpi release 0.24-20100220 uploaded to ibm-acpi.sf.net

[Pedro Ribeiro]

On 22 February 2010 12:21, Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 February 2010 22:43, Jerone Young <jerone.young@canonical.com> wrot=
e:
>> On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 15:47 -0600, Jerone Young wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 12:27 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>>> > I have released version 0.24-20100220 of thinkpad-acpi through the
>>> > sourceforge.net release system.
>>> >
>>> > Patches are available for 2.6.27 to 2.6.32, at:
>>> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/ibm-acpi/files/thinkpad-acpi/0.24-20=
100220/
>>> >
>>> > (support for 2.6.28 to 2.6.31 will be discontinued soon).
>>> >
>>> > git users can get it directly from tags in:
>>> > git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/linux-acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git
>>> >
>>> > This release has some bug fixes, the most important ones being to ALS=
A
>>> > and the ALSA mixer support, and to the NVRAM polling code.
>>> >
>>> > I have pending reports that the ALSA mixer does not always play well
>>> > with the newer ThinkPads with mute-only control. =A0This is not a new
>>> > regression, whatever the bug is, it has been there for a long time bu=
t
>>> > people never paid attention until it become easy to use through ALSA.
>>> > I'd appreciate some volunteers to do some testing on the Lenovo *61,
>>> > *400, *500 and newer ThinkPads.
>>>
>>> Just tired it out on my Thinkpad X301 and it does work. When using the
>>> proc interface if I echo mute .. it mutes the speakers .. and I see the
>>> orange light come on. When unmute orange light goes out and it unmutes
>>> the speakers.
>>
>> To add more .. did some experimenting. I found something interesting. So
>> if acpi_osi=3DLinux is passed on the kernel command line (this is done i=
n
>> the kernel for T61 & T400 & T500) .. but when I do this. The proc
>> interface doesn't actually work anymore. It will light up the mute
>> button light though on my X301 & turn it off. But no effect to the
>> volume.
>>
>>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Thanks,
>>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Jerone
>
>
> The T400 thing was requested by me because of stupid userspace tools.
> I guess that now it is not necessary?
> I'm going to compile and test the kernel without the acpi_osi=3DLinux
> and see what happens.
>
> Regards,
> Pedro
>

The whole mess about the acpi_osi=3DLinux is because userspace tools
always do a volume up / volume down, even when the volume is muted.
The result is that the volume goes up / down and unmuted at the same
time which is annoying.

I think the problem is that the mute key in the newer thinkpads (well,
at least in the T400 for sure) is not sending an acpi event. So using
acpi_listen, muting with the mute key and unmuting with the volume
keys I get this:

button/volumeup VOLUP 00000080 00000000
button/volumeup VOLUP 00000080 00000000
button/volumeup VOLUP 00000080 00000000
button/volumedown VOLDN 00000080 00000000
button/volumedown VOLDN 00000080 00000000

In between each volume up/down there was a mute which didn't get reported.

Henrique, do you think that it is possible to have an acpi event with
the mute key? This way we could (probably) safely drop ALL the
acpi_osi=3DLinux blacklisted models - R61, T61, X61, T400 and T500 and
would stop having to add new models to the blacklist base
(drivers/acpi/blacklist.c)

I tried to get the ALSA card working with
modprobe thinkpad-acpi volume_control=3D1 volume_capabilities=3D1
as well as the default parameters but the volume up/down does not
work. The proc interface also only works for mute.

Is it only for older models which also have volume up/down in hardware
or for newer models also? What is the purpose of it? (please don't get
me wrong, im just asking!)

Regards,
Pedro