T61 mute button (was Re: T61 no sound with Fedora 11)

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 15:39 -0400, Adam D. Ligas wrote: 
> On 10/01/2009 10:19 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > In fact, on my T61, the mute button is non-functional.  I've discovered
> > that turning the volume all the way down turns on the mute indicator in
> > GNOME, but it would be nice if the mute button actually toggled mute the
> > way it's designed to.
> >
> > I'd like to file this as a bug, but I'm not sure what component to file
> > it against.  Suggestions welcome.
> >
> > TIA.
> 
> Interesting - my T61 has a functioning mute button.
> 
> I think you need to update your BIOS.  I got this from the Lenovo 
> ChangLog for the T61 BIOS.
> 
> - (Fix) (ThinkPad T61/T61p only) Volume and mute buttons on the
> keyboard do not work on Linux.
> 
> That was in version 1.26-1.06.  They're much beyond that now.

Ooh, that's a great idea.  I updated, but it didn't help.

Forgot to check the version, but dmidecode now reports BIOS 2.38 and
Firmware 1.8.

Thanks for the suggestion, though.

> 
> - Adam
> 
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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