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Date:      Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:40:23 +1000
From:      Emil Mikulic <emil@cs.rmit.edu.au>
To:        Wolfram Fenske <Wolfram.Fenske@Student.Uni-Magdeburg.DE>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Subject:   Re: Keyboard LEDs always on
Message-ID:  <20060731014023.GB12725@cs.rmit.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <86mzaqn81y.fsf@student.uni-magdeburg.de>
References:  <20060729105933.GA687@bsd.trippelsdorf.de> <86mzaqn81y.fsf@student.uni-magdeburg.de>

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On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:37:13PM +0200, Wolfram Fenske wrote:
> Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@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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