T61 mute button (was Re: T61 no sound with Fedora 11)
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at clemson.edu
Sat Oct 3 02:04:02 UTC 2009
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
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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