At Fri, 27 May 2011 14:22:26 -0400, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> wrote: > > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:39:10PM -0400, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > > > >> I don't have docs so I don't really know. But the mute LED does not > >> appear to be controllable from the LED interface and when mute is lit > >> there's no sound regardless of what ALSA thinks. When I light the > >> micmute light, I can still record sound just fine. > >> > >> The mic mute button does nothing on Windows unless the special driver > >> is installed, and that driver seems to mute the Windows mixer, so I > >> think there's nothing special other than a little userspace helper > >> going on. > > > > Hm. That makes things kind of tricky. While it's easy to just expose the > > LED, really we want to do it in such a way that userspace knows which > > LEDs it should be toggling while setting the microphone mute. > > One thought: call the thing laptop::micmute and teach userspace to > look for an led with that name. > > Do any of the ALSA or PulseAudio people have any preferences?
I don't know of any machines but Thinkpad providing such a LED control, so I'm fine with any naming basically :) Though, if there are many of such mute LEDs, any parseable form like laptop::xxx-mute would be better for future? thanks, Takashi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
