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Thinkpad X60 volume up/down/mute not handled on Ubuntu 11.10

Bug #877271 reported by Rasmus Toftdahl Olesen on 2011-10-18

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #357673: No notification when sliding audio volume, muting volume on ThinkPad X23, X24, X31, X32, X41, X60, T22, T40, T41, T42, T43, T43p, T60, R50e, R51, R52. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

My Ubuntu 11.10 does not handle volume up/down/mute special keys on Thinkpad X60, brightness up/down works fine.

It did not work on Ubuntu 11.04 either (sorry for the slow report), never tried it on earlier Ubuntu releases.

acpi_listen reports the buttons so i think they just need to be mapped somewhere (up, down, mute):

ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001015
ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001016
ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001017

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2011-10-18:

when you say the keys are not handled, do you mean that they don't have any effect on the volume, or is this referring just to the lack of on-screen notification? The latter is bug #357673. The former would be a kernel or udev bug - acpi-support is not involved in handling these hotkeys.

affects:	acpi-support (Ubuntu) → linux (Ubuntu)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Rasmus Toftdahl Olesen (halfdan) wrote on 2011-10-19:

Hi Steve, thanks for replying.

You are absolutely correct, the volume is changed in "hardware" but the on-screen display is not shown - neither is the volume indicator changed on the "top menu" or what ever it is called.

And it looks like it is a copy of bug #357673, don't know why my searching didn't find that one, could you mark it as a duplicate - i can not find the duplicate button here on launchpad.