I don't believe a backport of the newest thinkpad driver will, alone, solve the volume notification problem. The new driver will create an ALSA mixer for the speakers, but a daemon is needed to listen for the mixer events and create notifications.
-- No notification when sliding audio volume, muting volume on ThinkPad X23, X24, X31, X32, X41, X60, T22, T40, T42, T60, R50e, R51, R52 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357673 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs