[Bug 456164] New: Clumsy volume mute
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456164 Summary: Clumsy volume mute Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: RC 2 Platform: i686 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: KDE4 Workspace AssignedTo: kde-maintainers@suse.de ReportedBy: radomir.cernoch@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Community User Using openSUSE 11.1-RC1 with ThinkPad T42 and KDE4, but the problem is probably not related only to KDE. There is a mismatch between the way how the ThinkPad's hardware volume control (HVC) and software mixer (SM) understand the "mute" hardware button. The notebook has 3 keys to control the volume: VolumeUp, VolumeDown and Mute. The trouble is that HVC gets unmuted by pressing VolumeUp/VolumeDown, but the SM gets unmuted by second stroke of the Mute button. I think the best way is to explain it through a sequence of keys pressed on the keyboard: 1) Initially the sound gets out of the notebook well, neither the HVC nor SM is muted. 2) Pressing Mute mutes the HVC and the generates a key sequence, which mutes the SM as well. No sound gets out of the notebook. Still OK. 3) a) Pressing VolumeUp unmutes the HVC, but the appropriate key sequence do not affect the mute-state of SM. Therefore the notebook is still muted by SM despite pressing VolumeUp. 3) b) Pressing Mute again unmutes the SM (repetitive press of Mute switches the mute-status of SM). But the HVC remains muted (repetitive press of Mute still keeps HVC muted). The only way, how to UNmute the notebook is to press the key sequence Mute->VolumeUp, which is particulary non-intuitive. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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