Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:18:23 +0100 From: ian j hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keyboard LEDs CAPS and NUM problem Message-ID: <200609160018.23800.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: <450B286B.90505@mail.uni-mainz.de> References: <463aea570606240732l54517aa7g9638686208cc06b4@mail.gmail.com> <200609152051.31937.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> <450B286B.90505@mail.uni-mainz.de>
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On Friday 15 September 2006 23:25, O. Hartmann wrote: > ian j hart wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:10, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: > >> Gobbledegeek wrote: > >>> Hi > >>> My 6.1 has a keyboard driver problem - CAPS and NUM LEDs only > >>> display if I press them alternately twice or thrice in a row. They do > >>> not work otherwise... is this a known issue? > >> > >> Hey, i have this problem too. But think this is problem on my keyboard. > >> SUCH A PITY!!!! > > > > Google doesn't find this... > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200604262032.50049.ianjhart > > > > ...but this is easily found > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/101931 > > The problem is still in 6.2-PRE on AMD64 boxes. sometimes, sporadically, > the LEDs work, but then they get stuck. I tried several keyboards - also > a good old IBM one - always the same. > And, much more bad, the CAPS LOCK key doesn't work either. Keyboard is a > core/basic functionality, and it seems not working properly anymore in > 6.X ... > > oh The main problem with this is that there's a simple workaround. So, the bug will linger until a kernel/driver hacker, with the right hardware, gets sufficiently annoyed to spend time fixing a bug with a trivial workaround. -- ian j hart
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