Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 601133
TPB off-screen after removing display
Last modified: 2011-06-27 13:42:16 EDT
Description of problem: ThinkPad T60 with Intel 945GM When I boot with an external monitor (or hotplug one), then tpb will go to the secondary (external) display for OSD, for a default extended desktop config. But when the secondary display is removed, tpb no longer displays OSD. Presumably it is still trying to put it onto the removed external display. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tpb-0.6.4-12.fc12.x86_64 How reproducible: Each time you remove the secondary display in a dual-display (extended desktop) setup. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot with secondary display (or hotplug one), causing extended desktop 2. Remove secondary display 3. Press Fn-F7 to refresh the display settings (or simply run xrandr) 4. Press a button such as volume, and there will not be an OSD from tpb any more Actual results: No tpb OSD Expected results: tpb OSD Additional info:
Why are you even using tpb? (I keep meaning to retire it). Your desktop should handle volume and other controls, including any OSD. What desktop env are you using? If you remove the tpb package does it work as expected?
With a standard Fedora 13 install (Gnome desktop) without TPB; ThinkPad T60 with i945GM - standard OSD for brightness works - standard OSD for Fn-F8 (Touchpad on/off) works - OSD for volume or anything else does not ThinkPad T41 with RV250 - No OSD for anything ThinkPad X40 with i855GM - No OSD for anything In all cases (correct) volume information is available (starting with the 2.6.33 kernel) from ALSA as a read-only "ThinkPad Console Audio Control" mixer device. On the T60, brightness is exported via ACPI but on the T41 and X40 it is slightly different. T60: /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/ T41/X40 /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/thinkpad_screen/ $ fgrep "" /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/thinkpad_screen/* /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/thinkpad_screen/actual_brightness:7 /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/thinkpad_screen/bl_power:0 /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/thinkpad_screen/brightness:7 /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/thinkpad_screen/max_brightness:7
FYI On the thinkpad-acpi mailing list I had a discussion back in January on the volume issue with the thinkpad-acpi developer and the pulseaudio developer. See here for the thread (look for the posts titled "thinkpad_acpi alsa sub-driver with 2.6.33-rc3-git2") http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=ibm-acpi-devel&max_rows=25&style=ultimate&viewmonth=201001
I've orphaned this package, hopefully whoever takes it over can sort this out.
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