Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750809AbWBXH1E (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:27:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750830AbWBXH1E (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:27:04 -0500 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:63893 "EHLO mail.suse.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750809AbWBXH1C (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:27:02 -0500 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:27:15 +0100 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Nick Warne , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: i386 AT keyboard LED question. Message-ID: <20060224072715.GA8088@suse.cz> References: <200602202003.26642.nick@linicks.net> <20060220202441.GB31272@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Bounce-Cookie: It's a lemon tree, dear Watson! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 799 Lines: 21 On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:17:19AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > >Some old notebooks forget them on, which makes the keyboard unusable - > >you get '4' instead of 'u', etc. > > > Not only old notebooks, but all 84-key keyboards with Num > functionality are affected AFAICS. If we forced the LED to ON everytime, they would be. If we used the BIOS setting (by peeking into the BIOS area), then only a few machines would have a problem - the BIOS defaults are often either correct or correctable by the user. -- Vojtech Pavlik Director SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/