Keyboard LEDs stay on after shutdown -p

Jens Schweikhardt schweikh at schweikhardt.net
Thu Jan 5 22:50:55 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 11:27:19AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
# 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?

It's a steelseries USB keyboard which probes as follows:

ugen5.3: <DATACOMP> at usbus5
ukbd0: <DATACOMP SteelSDATA, class 0/0, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 3> on usbus5
kbd2 at ukbd0
ums1: <DATACOMP SteelSDATA, class 0/0, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 3> on usbus5


Regards,

	Jens
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