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thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch

Started byPaul Seyfert <pseyfert.mathphys@gmail.com>
First post2017-10-19 23:50 +0200
Last post2017-10-23 15:20 +0200
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  thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch Paul Seyfert <pseyfert.mathphys@gmail.com> - 2017-10-19 23:50 +0200
    Re: thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-10-20 00:20 +0200
      Re: Thinkpad X220 working suspiciously well (except some stuff,  like webcam, bluetooth, phonecalls, jack buttons…)  (Re: thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch) "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu> - 2017-10-20 02:40 +0200
      Thinkpad X220 working suspiciously well (except some stuff, like  webcam, bluetooth, phonecalls, jack buttons…) (Re:  thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch) "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu> - 2017-10-20 02:40 +0200
      Re: thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-10-20 06:20 +0200
        Re: thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch Paul Seyfert <pseyfert.mathphys@gmail.com> - 2017-10-20 17:50 +0200
          Re: thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-10-20 21:00 +0200
            Re: thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch Paul Seyfert <pseyfert.mathphys@gmail.com> - 2017-10-23 14:30 +0200
              Re: thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-10-23 15:20 +0200

#188090 — thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch

FromPaul Seyfert <pseyfert.mathphys@gmail.com>
Date2017-10-19 23:50 +0200
Subjectthinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch
Message-ID<uCqRr-3xj-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
Hi,

I am using a thinkpad x220 running debian stable and enjoyed until the
upgrade to stretch that the mute button worked when waking up from
hibernate-ram already before the desktop environment was fully loaded
(especially before music players continue playback) and even when the
screen was locked.

I.e. i could send the laptop to hibernate with music playing, and if I
want the laptop to be silent when I open it, I could still rely on the
mute button.

Since I moved to stretch the mute button does not function anymore in
this way (I have assigned it with xbindkeys, but this doesn't work with
a screen lock in place).

After a short google search I tried the suggestions from the arch wiki
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Mute_button
and tried changing the line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi_osi=!Linux"
or
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi_osi=Linux"

in /etc/default/grub
(and ran update-grub and rebooted)
without success though.

Assuming I'm not the only thinkpad user, any others around who
encountered that problem and have already found a solution? Or tips for
how to get the mute button to work hardware-like again?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

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#188093

FromJimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>
Date2017-10-20 00:20 +0200
Message-ID<uCrkt-3VS-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#188090
On 10/19/2017 02:48 PM, Paul Seyfert wrote:
> Hi,

> Assuming I'm not the only thinkpad user, any others around who
> encountered that problem and have already found a solution? Or tips for
> how to get the mute button to work hardware-like again?


Paul, do you have "tpb" installed?  That's the package to install 
thinkpad buttons.
I have it installed and can mute, etc. My thinkpad is running 
Buster/Testing now and busy, but will check in Stretch sometime today.
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2
Registered Linux User #380263

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#188098 — Re: Thinkpad X220 working suspiciously well (except some stuff, like webcam, bluetooth, phonecalls, jack buttons…) (Re: thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch)

From"Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
Date2017-10-20 02:40 +0200
SubjectRe: Thinkpad X220 working suspiciously well (except some stuff, like webcam, bluetooth, phonecalls, jack buttons…) (Re: thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch)
Message-ID<uCtvX-5hJ-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#188093
Oh, sorry, actually my suspend to disk/hibernate button isn’t recognized
by xev currently :/

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#188100 — Thinkpad X220 working suspiciously well (except some stuff, like webcam, bluetooth, phonecalls, jack buttons…) (Re: thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch)

From"Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
Date2017-10-20 02:40 +0200
SubjectThinkpad X220 working suspiciously well (except some stuff, like webcam, bluetooth, phonecalls, jack buttons…) (Re: thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch)
Message-ID<uCtvX-5hJ-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#188093
I don’t have tpb installed, and got a thinkpad X220 (really nice btw,
fingerprint reader, mobile 3G+sms+calls working out of the box and stuff
(sad there’s no IrDA…)) on which I installed debian stable (that is 9.2
currently), and the mute button (and its ability to switch on its led
when my system is muted, including when I do it from software) works
perfectly (same for the microphone mute button and its led too), even
when resuming from suspend to ram, with screen lock activated, and mpv
playing stuff… that is: couldn’t reproduce.

Have some friend with Thinkpad X60 who strangely didn’t got all the nice
stuff I have now under XFCE/KDE when upgrading to 9.2: why upgrading
instead of reinstalling always ends up with such problems? isn’t there
some way to stop that behavior (like automatic “purge” instead of
“remove” when upgrading packages?)?

Btw what package/program does manage these buttons? I suppose the event
comes from the normal keyboard events, but what does control the led?
what does save the state of it? Why does it work without tpb? What is
tpb for if it works out of the box? Why doesn’t it install itself on
thinkpads when debian installs? Why should we guess/know already that
this package exist and we should theorically install it on thinkpad in
order to make them work?

So yet ThinkVantage button is recognized by xev (as XF86Launch1, but it
seems to do nothing by default), the button for ThinkLight works
correctly, same thing for luminosity and sound +/- (which is recognized
by KDE and display its progress bar (how is it called this bar you see
when you change these settings?), caps lock (and its led), num lock (yet
there seem to be no led for it on this laptop), and all the Fn buttons :
screen lock, “battery” is recognized although it seems to do nothing
under KDE (what is it supposed to do?), suspend, toggle WLAN, webcam
(recognized but does nothing, I think I have no webcam recognized…
normally it has one right?  with free driver?), “external display”,
“disable trackpad” (wait! how do you re-enable it?! …except by reboot I
mean), suspend to disk/hibernate, and the multimedia buttons of the
arrow keys.

There’s still bluetooth which when used always switch on/off (hardware
fault?), seemingly unrecognized/inexistant webcam, that battery fn
button I ignore the purpose, this really really low-precision trackpad
(it “jumps” over several pixel for any small enough movement that’s
really ugly so I never use it while it’s really comfortable and quick
and precise with multitouch), I don’t know if I can make and hear/talk
through audio call with my sierra usb gsm modem (is that possible? for
now I can make phones ring, and check if I’m called, and hang up, and
also “accept” but the correspondant don’t hear anything), the combined
micro+headphone port doesn’t seem to support buttons (like for “accept
call/prev/next/pause”), oh, and the worst, that ethernet port can’t get
an ethernet cable clipsed in! if it moves a bit, bam, disconnected (had
that with my precedent thinkpad though)!

Oh also wifi doesn’t work of course because of Intel, so once it will be
supported by libreboot, when it will be installed or when I’ll have to
open it I will change the wifi card for one of those atheros wifi pci
card that still need manual installation of the free firmware (ath9k
afaik, or ath10k forgot) under debian because it’s packaged altogether
with non-free atheros firmware (any advice for cheap (some dollars) wifi
pci cards of good quality with free firmware supported by debian? have
some AR9271)

Oh maybe I should really split that in some separate mails with relevant
subject to the list… althought maybe too much hardware questions… maybe
outsubject… maybe too much issues for those it is normal not to have any
solution currently…

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#188111

FromJimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>
Date2017-10-20 06:20 +0200
Message-ID<uCwWS-7wi-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#188093
On 10/19/2017 03:11 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 10/19/2017 02:48 PM, Paul Seyfert wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
>> Assuming I'm not the only thinkpad user, any others around who
>> encountered that problem and have already found a solution? Or tips for
>> how to get the mute button to work hardware-like again?
> 
> 
> Paul, do you have "tpb" installed?  That's the package to install 
> thinkpad buttons.
> I have it installed and can mute, etc. My thinkpad is running 
> Buster/Testing now and busy, but will check in Stretch sometime today.


I upgraded Jessie on this Thinkpad and the volume buttons are working fine.
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - Intel Mobile 965 - EXT4 at sda6
Registered Linux User #380263

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#188126

FromPaul Seyfert <pseyfert.mathphys@gmail.com>
Date2017-10-20 17:50 +0200
Message-ID<uCHIB-5wP-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#188111
Hi,

On 20.10.2017 06:09, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 10/19/2017 03:11 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
>> On 10/19/2017 02:48 PM, Paul Seyfert wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>
>>> Assuming I'm not the only thinkpad user, any others around who
>>> encountered that problem and have already found a solution? Or tips for
>>> how to get the mute button to work hardware-like again?
>>
>>
>> Paul, do you have "tpb" installed?  That's the package to install 
>> thinkpad buttons.
>> I have it installed and can mute, etc. My thinkpad is running 
>> Buster/Testing now and busy, but will check in Stretch sometime today.
> 
> I upgraded Jessie on this Thinkpad and the volume buttons are working fine.

Thanks for checking. I did not have have tpb installed.
Installing it didn't help though.

Alexandre's reply makes me wonder if my setup is wrong in another
place than the presence/absence of tpb.

Cheers,
Paul

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#188133

FromJimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>
Date2017-10-20 21:00 +0200
Message-ID<uCKGt-7fo-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#188126
On 10/20/2017 08:43 AM, Paul Seyfert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 20.10.2017 06:09, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
>> On 10/19/2017 03:11 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
>>> On 10/19/2017 02:48 PM, Paul Seyfert wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> Assuming I'm not the only thinkpad user, any others around who
>>>> encountered that problem and have already found a solution? Or tips for
>>>> how to get the mute button to work hardware-like again?
>>>
>>>
>>> Paul, do you have "tpb" installed?  That's the package to install
>>> thinkpad buttons.
>>> I have it installed and can mute, etc. My thinkpad is running
>>> Buster/Testing now and busy, but will check in Stretch sometime today.
>>
>> I upgraded Jessie on this Thinkpad and the volume buttons are working fine.
> 
> Thanks for checking. I did not have have tpb installed.
> Installing it didn't help though.
> 
> Alexandre's reply makes me wonder if my setup is wrong in another
> place than the presence/absence of tpb.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul


I also install firmware-linux* and intel-microcode/amd64-microcode, plus 
if you search thinkpad you will find some packages too.
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2
Registered Linux User #380263

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#188203

FromPaul Seyfert <pseyfert.mathphys@gmail.com>
Date2017-10-23 14:30 +0200
Message-ID<uDK1I-5HX-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#188133
>>>>> Assuming I'm not the only thinkpad user, any others around who
>>>>> encountered that problem and have already found a solution? Or tips for
>>>>> how to get the mute button to work hardware-like again?
>>
>> Thanks for checking. I did not have have tpb installed.
>> Installing it didn't help though.
>
> I also install firmware-linux* and intel-microcode/amd64-microcode, plus 
> if you search thinkpad you will find some packages too.

Hi,

firmware-linux* and intel/amd64-microcode were already installed.
I tried adding acpitool and tp-smapi-dkms without success.

Cheers,
Paul

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#188206

FromJimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>
Date2017-10-23 15:20 +0200
Message-ID<uDKO5-6eu-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#188203
On 10/23/2017 05:24 AM, Paul Seyfert wrote:
>>>>>> Assuming I'm not the only thinkpad user, any others around who
>>>>>> encountered that problem and have already found a solution? Or tips for
>>>>>> how to get the mute button to work hardware-like again?
>>>
>>> Thanks for checking. I did not have have tpb installed.
>>> Installing it didn't help though.
>>
>> I also install firmware-linux* and intel-microcode/amd64-microcode, plus
>> if you search thinkpad you will find some packages too.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> firmware-linux* and intel/amd64-microcode were already installed.
> I tried adding acpitool and tp-smapi-dkms without success.


I have 3 Thinkpad's, not you model but I don't have your problem, yes I 
know that does not help, maybe the problem is the desktop, I don't know, 
but while googling I found this
  http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Button and maybe it will help 
or maybe someone else will chime in and can get you going.

Good luck,
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5
Registered Linux User #380263

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