keyboard LEDs CAPS and NUM problem

[ian j hart]

On Friday 15 September 2006 23:25, O. Hartmann wrote:
> ian j hart wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:10, Zhu Sha Zang wrote:
> >> Gobbledegeek wrote:
> >>> Hi
> >>>   My 6.1 has a keyboard driver problem - CAPS and NUM LEDs only
> >>> display if I press them alternately twice or thrice in a row. They do
> >>> not work otherwise... is this a known issue?
> >>
> >> Hey, i have this problem too. But think this is problem on my keyboard.
> >> SUCH A PITY!!!!
> >
> > Google doesn't find this...
> > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200604262032.50049.ianjhart
> >
> > ...but this is easily found
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/101931
>
> The problem is still in 6.2-PRE on AMD64 boxes. sometimes, sporadically,
> the LEDs work, but then they get stuck. I tried several keyboards - also
> a good old IBM one - always the same.
> And, much more bad, the CAPS LOCK key doesn't work either. Keyboard is a
> core/basic functionality, and it seems not working properly anymore in
> 6.X ...
>
> oh

The main problem with this is that there's a simple workaround.

So, the bug will linger until a kernel/driver hacker, with the right hardware, gets
sufficiently annoyed to spend time fixing a bug with a trivial workaround.

-- 
ian j hart