From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 15 23:18:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ACB016A412 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:18:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) Received: from cpc1-cove3-0-0-cust839.brhm.cable.ntl.com (cpc1-cove3-0-0-cust839.brhm.cable.ntl.com [86.20.31.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E9243D46 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:18:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) Received: from gamma.private.lan (gamma.private.lan [192.168.0.12]) by cpc1-cove3-0-0-cust839.brhm.cable.ntl.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8FNIOOW079803; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:18:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) From: ian j hart To: "O. Hartmann" Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:18:23 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <463aea570606240732l54517aa7g9638686208cc06b4@mail.gmail.com> <200609152051.31937.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> <450B286B.90505@mail.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <450B286B.90505@mail.uni-mainz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609160018.23800.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=ham version=3.1.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-25) on cpc1-cove3-0-0-cust839.brhm.cable.ntl.com X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:36:04 +0000 Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keyboard LEDs CAPS and NUM problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:18:28 -0000 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