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Subjectthinkpad testers wanted (was Re: 2.6.22-rc[23]: blinking capslock led, stuck keys?)
Hi!

> >> > 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.

Hmm, this needs to be ran from console (not X). Can someone with
thinkpad try this?
Pavel
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