keyboard leds have stoped working properly

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

Due to a change, that I think happened in the last three months (the best guesstimate I have), the three basic keyboard leds have stopped working, that is they aren't toggled by their respective keys anymore. They can still be toggled programmatically - well, at least with some of the tools.

First, I though it's an xserver problem, but console is affected too.

I'm on x86.

So, anyone has an idea, what could be the cause of this problem ?

audiodef · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 5:29 pm Post subject:

You said the LED's have stopped working, but have the actual keys themselves stopped working?
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VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

The status as reported by 'kbdinfo gkbled' does change on a key press, but the leds don't.
On the other hand, 'numlockx' is able to turn the led on, but 'xset led named "Num Lock"' does not.

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

When I said "The status as reported by 'kbdinfo gkbled' does change", what I forgot to say was that the status of the keyboard does change too - for both CapsLock and NumLock (I was never sure what the effect of ScrollLock should have been). It's only the led status that's inconsistent.