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Message-Id: <20070401091610.46fa1ddb.zaitcev@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 09:16:10 -0700 From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@...hat.com> To: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi> Cc: "Jiri Kosina" <jkosina@...e.cz>, dtor@...ightbb.com, linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stuart_hayes@...l.com Subject: Re: usb hid: reset NumLock On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 14:49:59 +0300, "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi> wrote: > On 3/30/07, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@...hat.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? It's related, but not the same problem. Perhaps the initialization in atkbd which Dmitry mentioned is not complete. Jiri found a fatal bug in my patch, but even assuming that it worked, it still would do nothing to you. -- Pete - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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