Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932822AbXBOO3K (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:29:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932815AbXBOO3K (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:29:10 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:33319 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932822AbXBOO3I (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:29:08 -0500 Message-ID: <45D46F7B.3060105@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:34:35 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070102) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jean Delvare CC: Linus Torvalds , Dax Kelson , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Linus' laptop and Num lock status References: <1171479361.3706.48.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> <20070214202144.1ddb930f.khali@linux-fr.org> In-Reply-To: <20070214202144.1ddb930f.khali@linux-fr.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 592 Lines: 20 Jean Delvare wrote: > > On x86, the BIOS led state can be read from byte 0x97 the BIOS RAM. The > BIOS RAM is mapped at 0x400 so all we need to do is to one byte from > RAM (offset 0x497). This is how Suse's hwinfo does. > Perhaps that's what Suse does, but the proper address is 0x417. 0x497 is the rarely-used LPT2 timeout ocunter. -hpa - 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/