Keyboard LEDs always on

Emil Mikulic emil at cs.rmit.edu.au
Mon Jul 31 01:49:22 UTC 2006


On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:37:13PM +0200, Wolfram Fenske wrote:
> Markus Trippelsdorf <markus at trippelsdorf.de> writes:
> 
> > After upgrading from -stable to -current, the three LEDs on my
> > USB keyboard are switched on at boot time and cannot be controlled
> > by the caps-, num- or scroll-lock keys anymore.
> > Is this a known problem?  I would be grateful for any hints.
> 
> I can't really help you solve this, but I can confirm it.  I had the
> same problem with my USB keyboard.  It didn't happen with an older
> -current from around around april.

I'm seeing it too, but only in X11.  If I switch to a textmode console,
NumLock and CapsLock behave as I expect them to.  ScrollLock does weird
wacky things to the LEDs though...

This is on a Dell GX280 with a USB keyboard.

--Emil


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