Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964883AbXBTOAF (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:00:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964893AbXBTOAF (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:00:05 -0500 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:42459 "HELO embla.aitel.hist.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964883AbXBTOAE (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:00:04 -0500 Message-ID: <45DAFE2D.3060606@aitel.hist.no> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:57:01 +0100 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Krzysztof Halasa CC: Jan Engelhardt , Dax Kelson , Linus Torvalds , Jean Delvare , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Linus' laptop and Num lock status References: <1171479361.3706.48.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> <20070214202144.1ddb930f.khali@linux-fr.org> <1171488840.3706.78.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1002 Lines: 27 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Jan Engelhardt writes: > > >>> I checked, and looking at offset 0x497 seems to work fine on a couple of >>> systems with USB keyboards. >>> >> Probably just because legacy mode was enabled. Plus I wonder what 0x497 will >> return when there is actually more than one USB keyboard connected at boot. >> > > I bet all would share LED states. If you can use multiple keyboards > in legacy mode at all, of course. > I have used multiple keyboards, for a 2-user machine. The bios interact with only one of the keyboards, and track LED state on that. Other keyboard(s) become useful once the linux comes up with its event interface. You then have one set of LEDS per keyboard. Helge Hafting - 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/