From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i386 AT keyboard LED question.
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:27:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060224072715.GA8088@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602240816130.16363@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-24 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-20 20:03 i386 AT keyboard LED question Nick Warne
2006-02-20 20:24 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-02-20 20:51 ` Nick Warne
2006-02-20 20:57 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-02-20 21:12 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-20 21:21 ` Nick Warne
2006-02-24 7:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-24 7:27 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
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