On my HP laptop with capacitive volume-control "softkeys", zero volume and mute are two vastly different states: hardware "mute" is indicated by the hardware mute button / LED turning orange, and mutes the internal speakers no matter what state the OS is in.
In Windows 7, the mixer offers a distinction between 0% and mute. The volume slider ranges between 0% and 100%, indicated by the icon showing zero to three "waves". Mute is indicated by replacing the "waves" with a circular "no" symbol, and turning the hardware Mute LED orange. In Gnome, any time I turn down the volume with my hotkeys, I have to "dodge" the 0% mark, where gnome decides to forcibly assert the mute pin. Interestingly enough, Windows shows this same behavior only when Windows Media Center is running. I've fiddled with the source of gnome-settings-daemon, and I found it relatively simple (aside from sign issues) to change the volume-down behavior to match the volume-up behavior, with the enhancement of not un-muting when lowering volume. Attached is a rough patch to do just that. A marginally related bug specifically regarding HP hotkeys: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/284319 ** Patch added: "Patch to remove mute-on-zero-volume behavior from gnome-settings-daemon" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/45619660/gsd_dont_mute_on_zero_volume.patch -- Panel volume icon state changes to "mute" when volume reaches zero https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332081 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
