Comment 112 for bug 357673

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Nick Bauermeister wrote:
> Sorry, I meant "is nominated". There doesn't seem to be a lot of
> attention to the issue anymore.

Quite the opposite! Backlight has been fixed properly and will be in
2.6.32. The code to support the backlight events is also usable to report
volume and mute state changes, so implementing that is next in my list.

In fact, I am working on that support *right now*. It will take the form of
an alsa mixer. If you want OSD for audio, you hook to the mixer using a
proper ALSA-aware program, and it will be notified when the volume changes.

Alsa mixer support will be on the kernel upstream for 2.6.33. Ubuntu likes
to backport this kind of stuff, so you should see it well before 2.6.33 is
out.

--
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh