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T410 special keys in LM 17.3 and 18 #5650

Closed bitboy85 closed 6 years ago

bitboy85 commented 8 years ago

In LM 17.3 the Hardware mute key from a T410 Laptop works fine, in LM 18 the Speaker is muted, but the LED in the key doesn't light up.

The mute microphone key has no function and no LED light up in both Versions.

ManIVIctorious commented 8 years ago

I don't think this is a cinnamon issue

bitboy85 commented 8 years ago

Well i wasn't sure about this, but at least i think the [new] sound applet ist part of cinnamon, so there should be an action if the microphone mute key is pressed. With the LED i'm not sure where to report this bug.

JosephMcc commented 8 years ago

I'll leave this open for now. The hardware LED is probably more a kernel/driver issue but the microphone mute not doing anything could be on our side. I'm not sure. Have you happened to try this on any other DE besides Cinnamon? Such as Mate or Xfce?

bitboy85 commented 8 years ago

No i didn't try another DE. If you need any logs or so let me know.

leigh123linux commented 8 years ago

I have a Lenovo T410 with Linuxmint 18 (upgrade from 17) and the microphone mute key works fine + the LED. The speaker mute LED is non-function (I didn't know it had one).

bitboy85 commented 8 years ago

The led things seems related to the kernel. there are some reports about this issue: https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2016/03/msg00283.html i tried using xev and acpi_listen but no event shows up if i press the micmute button.

leigh123linux commented 8 years ago

@bitboy85

Did you read

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Microphone_Mute_Button

Vahan86 commented 6 years ago

@bitboy85, is this still an issue for you with Cinnamon 3.6?

bitboy85 commented 6 years ago

Hi, late update. i've found this: https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2016/03/msg00293.html and it works. i've created a file /etc/modprobe.d/thinkpad_mute.conf with content options thinkpad_acpi software_mute=0 and the mute LED is working again on LM18.3 Cinnamon.

The mic mute button isn't working at all. i tried acpi_listen but there is no output if i press the button.

leigh123linux commented 6 years ago

This isn't something that can be fixed within cinnamon.