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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:21:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
Cc:        mobile@FreeBSD.org, taku@cent.saitama-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: Reality check on ESS Technology Maestro-2E h/w "mute" functi
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010327102147.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200103271706.f2RH6Pq15569@bunrab.catwhisker.org>

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On 27-Mar-01 David Wolfskill wrote:
>>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:52:31 +0900
>>From: Taku YAMAMOTO <taku@cent.saitama-u.ac.jp>
> 
>>But, since mute button is actually choded into UP-and-DOWN simultaneously,
>>it may happen to misunderstand MUTE button as if an independent
>>UP/DOWN event came first. (It is nothing more than my imagination, though.)
> 
>>So, perhaps 0x77 came from HWVOL_DOWN | 0x11, I imagine.
>>Attached diff will make both 0x77 and 0x99 to be recognized as MUTE.
>>(And, hopefully, 0xbb --- HWVOL_UP | 0x11 --- , too)
> 
> OK; the patch appears to work in today's -CURRENT (as expected), too.
> 
> I hadn't known about the intended behavior of pressing the UP/DOWN
> buttons (on the left side of the keyboard) simultaneously; when I try
> it with the patch (in -CURRENT), it does drop the volume to 0.  However,
> unlike the Fn+End chord, the UP+DOWN chord does not toggle the volume
> back to "normal" -- it merely drops it to 0.

It should.. It does here at least.

Hmmmm, I just tried it again and sure enough, it doesn't work. :(  Weird.
That used to work, but getting both buttons pressed is somewhat tricky
sometimes.  Like, it sends in double presses a lot, so it may be unmuting and
then re-muting.

> In any case, I find it a vast improvement.  I'm willing to file a PR, if
> that would help get the code committed....

I think Yamamoto-san can just commit it or get Cameron to commit it.  (I hope
I got the names right.)

> Thanks again,
> david

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