kbdmux oddity ?

Emil Mikulic emil at cs.rmit.edu.au
Fri Jun 30 02:11:11 UTC 2006


On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:09:14PM +0300, Lena at lena.kiev.ua wrote:
> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2, Abit BE6-II motherboard made in 2000 or 2001,
> PS/2 keyboard, no USB keyboard. In console the Caps Lock key works,
> but the Caps Lock LED doesn't lit up at all. In X the LED works OK.
> 
> Adding hint.kbdmux.0.disabled="1" to /boot/device.hints
> made the Caps Lock LED to work in console again.

Funny you should mention this...

I still have hint.atkbd.0.disabled="1" and with a kernel from about Jun
23 my keyboard LEDs only work in text mode, not in X.

So wacky...

--Emil


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