From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Jerone Young <jerone.young@canonical.com>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix mute key on older Thinkpads by OSI blacklisting them
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:44:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100425184405.GA29130@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1272220091.1274.94.camel@laptop>
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 01:28:11PM -0500, Jerone Young wrote:
> I think it's not really possible to get it correct with thinkpad-acpi .
> The reason is the userspace sound server. In our case it's pulse audio.
> So we are no longer just dealing with ALSA anymore. So if the OS gets a
> proper hotkey event it is able to mute at the pulse audio level then,
> pulse audio does work at the ALSA level (toggling the mixer).
> thinkpad-acpi has no way to check on the status of pulse audio.
This really isn't a problem. We have a mixer device for the Thinkpad's
own mixer, and we can send ALSA events to indicate that its state has
changed.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-25 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-23 22:48 [PATCH] Fix mute key on older Thinkpads by OSI blacklisting them Jerone Young
2010-04-24 2:01 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-04-24 2:14 ` Jerone Young
2010-04-24 2:19 ` Jerone Young
2010-04-24 3:10 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-04-24 4:15 ` Jerone Young
2010-04-24 16:01 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-24 20:49 ` Jerone Young
2010-04-24 21:16 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-25 0:08 ` Jerone Young
2010-04-25 2:28 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-04-25 18:28 ` Jerone Young
2010-04-25 18:44 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-04-25 18:57 ` Jerone Young
2010-04-25 18:59 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-25 19:19 ` Jerone Young
2010-04-26 10:11 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-04-27 5:50 ` Jerone Young
2010-04-25 19:02 ` Jerone Young
2010-04-26 10:38 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-04-27 5:44 ` Jerone Young
2010-04-25 0:19 ` Jerone Young
2010-05-03 11:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
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