Re: Debian Jessie on Thinkpad X220

Morning,

If you also cannot hear any music, it's the problem of the browser 
firefox c.q. iceweasel. Then that is the problem what I have.

Gérard.

Am 28.02.2017 um 22:24 schrieb Bob Proulx:
> [email protected] wrote:
>> Kirill Shilov wrote:
>>> Very strange, i have X220 and X230 and all functional working correctly out
>>> of the box.(not a mic led of course).
>
> I have had other people report the same thing.  But not for me.  This
> (so far) is a stock installation of Jessie running Xfce.  However
> normally I simply run the 'awesome' tiling window manager.  Here is
> some updated information.
>
> When running xfce4-session the mute and volume controls are acted upon
> by the window manager.  But they do not work outside of the desktop
> environment.  They do not work when running a simple window manager
> such as 'awesome' for example.  Nor on the Linux console.  The
> keyboard light toggle, sleep to ram, and hibernate to disk keys do
> function everywhere.
>
> Here is a sampling of keys that "don't work" but do produce X events.
>
>   keycode 122 XF86AudioLowerVolume
>   keycode 123 XF86AudioRaiseVolume
>   keycode 198 XF86AudioMicMute
>   keycode 156 XF86Launch1
>   keycode 232 XF86MonBrightnessDown
>   keycode 233 XF86MonBrightnessUp
>
> Xfce apparently catches the mute, volume-up, volume-down keys and
> connects them to the mixer.  But not the other keys.  And of course
> that doesn't work with other window managers.
>
>>> maybe you have a hardware issue? try to update/reset bios?
>
> The keys all generate key events so I don't think the BIOS is the
> problem.  Thinkwiki mentions versions up through 1.29 and I have 1.31
> installed so probably okay.  However I know there are many security
> upgrades that I should install post 1.31 to get to the current 1.43.
> I will contemplate that action today.
>
>> I have had many (fixable)issues with thinkpads and buttons, but not on x220 specifically. First,
>> it is advised specifically for the x220 to update to a recent bios,
>> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_ACPI_work
>
> What I should do is install libreboot which does now support the X220.
> But at the moment I am running the stock BIOS version 1.31.  However
> again the keys do generate key events and therefore I don't think this
> is the problem.  I will contemplate upgrading the BIOS today
> regardless because it would be good to get the other fixes available.
> And if it is going to brick this system I should do it sooner rather
> than later.
>
>> ... and then install a package called tpb (ThinkPadButtons), I
>> checked and it is still in stable(jessie) here is some more good
>> stuff on the thinkpad x220...
>> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X220
>
> Yes I have always used 'tpb' thinkpad buttons in the past to provide
> for this.  On my T42, T43, T60p, that handled the laptop keys nicely.
> But tpb seems non-functional for my X220.  At least it doesn't seem to
> have any noticable effect.  Yes I have set myself into the nvram
> group.  And yes the Thinkwiki is a wonderful resource!
>
> My preference would be to have tpb handle these keys because then I
> get the osd on-screen-display feedback for their actions.
>
> Bob
>