Re: thinkpad mute button not working since upgrade to stretch

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

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.
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Jimmy Johnson

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