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Bug#819100: linux-image-4.4.0-1-amd64: Mute and Mic-Mute LEDs no longer work on Thinkpad T410



On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 21:32 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> 
> On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 18:53 +0000, Tim Wootton wrote:
> > 
> > Package: src:linux
> > Version: 4.4.6-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> >    * What led up to the situation?
> >         Upgrade from jessie to stretch
> >    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> >      ineffective)?
> >         Pressing Thnkpad T410's hardware speaker mute button
> >    * What was the outcome of this action?
> >         Speaker mutes, but the button's LED does not illuminate
> >    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> >         Expected the LED to illuminate
> > 
> > The mic mute button also exhibits the same behavior, but I had not
> > tried this under jessie so don't know if it worked before.
> It hasn't worked for me on the quite similar T420.
> 
> > 
> >  The speaker mute certainly did.
> [...]
> 
> As far as the kernel is concerned, the mute button is just an ordinary
> key on the keyboard (you can see this with the evtest program).  You
> need a userland daemon to act on it (such as pulseaudio).

Actually I'm not sure that's entirely true - I think that initially the
firmware (BIOS) handles the mute button itself, but software can take
responsibility for it.

There are some hints here for debugging and working around this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ThinkPad:_Mute_button

Let us know if any of that helps.

Ben.

> What desktop environment are you using?


-- 
Ben Hutchings
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