linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.34-rc7: keyboard CAPS on/off indifferent, always capital

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Message-ID: <71911.1273586399@localhost>
Date:	Tue, 11 May 2010 09:59:59 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Nils Radtke <lkml@...nk-Future.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.34-rc7: keyboard CAPS on/off indifferent, always capital

On Tue, 11 May 2010 13:33:47 +0200, Nils Radtke said:
>   When resuming, the keys are capitalized but the CAPS LED is not lit. shift+key doesn't
>   switch. Suspend-resume does temporarily fix it. As well as switching to console and back
>   to X.

For what it's worth, I'm seeing a similar thing intermittently on my laptop
running 2.6.34-rc5-mmotm0428.  It will about 50% of the time boot with
caps-lock set, but hitting Shift or Caps-Lock key won't light the corresponding
light (but it *does* actually change state).

Really sucks when the first thing you need to enter is the encryption key
for the disk.  Try twice, hit caps-lock, have it work. Of course, the key is
masked, so you can't tell which way it's set.

Problem resolves once the X server starts up.

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