Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:02:33 -0400 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.22-rc[23]: blinking capslock led, stuck keys? |
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On 6/4/07, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > Hi! > > > > Are you sure that it's this dummy blink driver that makes the kernel > > > stuck? I can't see how it could be causing any hogs - see commit f038f9. > > > > > > Anyway, added Andi to CC. > > > > Hmm, in theory it could be triggering bugs in some buggy keyboard > > controller. But then a > > > > while true ; do setleds +caps +numlock ; sleep 1 ; setleds -caps -numlock ; > > sleep 1 ; done > > > > should trigger it too. > > ...and it does. > > pavel@amd:~$ while true; do setleds +num; setleds -num; done > Hm,m so thiis iis a teest of fkeyboarad behaviour under lloadd. > > pavel@amd:~$ > > ...but I'm not quite sure it is a buggy keyboard. It happens _way_ too > often. Launch the line above and try to do some typing...
This used to work fine on my box last time I tried it (the switch itself is offloaded to a keventd and shoud not get in the way) but then they push all kind of ACPI/SMM crap together with KBC so who knows... I should try it again when I get home.
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