Not Sure Which Package to Submit Bug Against
I have a Dell Latitude 5590 laptop running unstable.
At some time in the past few weeks I noticed the light was on on the
keyboard's F4 key, indicating that the microphone was muted. Since I
don't like my devices spying on me, I thought that was fine.
Weeks later I needed the mic, and tried to unmute it. Couldn't. Tried
everything I could think of, including a different OS, and BIOS
settings. So I figured it was a hardware problem, and I turned it over
the our hardware folks.
The hardware tech immediately was able to unmute the mic.
The difference was I had logged the laptop in as a different
(pre-existing) user for the tech's use.
I did some experimentation afterwards, and have discovered that if
user X mutes the mic, the mic then seems to be "owned" by user X, and
no one and no OS can seem to unmute it. I was using the machine as
user Y, which is why I couldn't unmute it, and when I handed the
laptop to the hardware tech, logged in as user X, bingo! He umuted it.
I don't know if this would be a kernel package bug, or an X package
bug, or a keyboard-input package bug, or an audio-package bug, or ....
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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Kent West <")))><
Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
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