Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:41:53 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Caps lock XOR on multiple keyboards? |
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On Sun 2013-03-24 11:30:18, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > On Mon 2012-12-03 23:58:48, Alan Cox wrote: > > On 3 Dec 2012 16:19:11 -0500 > > "George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com> wrote: > > > > > (Not sure who owns this; Cc: to the last few people to touch > > > drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c.) > > > > linux-input is probably the best place to discuss this > > Added few more ccs. Yes, I see that too, in kernels such as debian > 2.6.32. It may be even older than that, but I was not using docking > heavily in the old days. > > Symptoms for me are that pretty often capslock LED will start show > opposite of true capslock state. I normally use X these days.
Ok... so it is:
Each capslock key only controls the local LED, but affects global state.
So I turn on capslock on PS/2 keyboard its led is on. But I type on USB keyboard, its capslock led is off, but I type in all caps. Oops.
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