Keyboard LEDs stay on after shutdown -p

Jeremy Chadwick freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Thu Jan 5 19:27:23 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 04:50:48PM +0100, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> hello, world\n
> 
> I made an interesting observation the other day. I don't know if it is
> because of the update to 9-STABLE with the same kernel config I used the
> last months, or maybe Windows 7 on my multi OS system has frobbed something
> somewhere, but when I "shutdown -p" the three keyboard LEDs Num, Caps & Scroll
> remain lit... pulling the plug of course does fix it :-)
> 
> In order to have the LEDs out,
> do I have to add a new kernel option?
> Tune some sysctl values?

PS/2 or USB keyboard?

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