From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stuard_hayes@dell.com
Subject: Re: usb hid: reset NumLock
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 00:10:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704020010.48991.dtor@insightbb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020704010449w2ba342a3qf3025425e84ad2ce@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Pekka,
On Sunday 01 April 2007 07:49, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 3/30/07, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Dell people (Stuart and Charles) complained that on some USB keyboards,
> > if BIOS enables NumLock, it stays on even after Linux has started. Since
> > we always start with NumLock off, this confuses users. Quick double dab
> > at NumLock fixes it, but it's not nice.
>
> What I am seeing on my Thinkpad is that when I boot _without_ an USB
> keyboard NumLock is enabled. Switching to virtual console and back to
> X fixes it which is why I have never bothered to debug it further.
> Perhaps this is related? Should I give your patch a spin to see if it
> fixes the problem?
>
Are you saying that NumLock LED is lit or that keyboard is in NumLock
state? Does the same happen if you boot with init=/bin/bash?
--
Dmitry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-02 4:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-30 17:59 usb hid: reset NumLock Pete Zaitcev
2007-03-30 18:14 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-30 19:54 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-03-30 20:29 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-31 19:35 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-03-31 22:43 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-04-02 5:24 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-04-02 14:48 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-02 23:12 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-04-03 5:04 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-03 6:24 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-04-03 8:52 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-03 8:57 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Robert Marquardt
2007-04-03 9:32 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-05 3:24 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-05 8:50 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-04-05 20:38 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-04-05 20:54 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-05 21:22 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-04-01 11:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-04-01 16:16 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-04-02 4:10 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
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