Re: 2.6.22-rc[23]: blinking capslock led, stuck keys?

["Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On 6/4/07, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > Are you sure that it's this dummy blink driver that makes the kernel
> > > stuck? I can't see how it could be causing any hogs - see commit f038f9.
> > >
> > > Anyway, added Andi to CC.
> >
> > Hmm, in theory it could be triggering bugs in some buggy keyboard
> > controller. But then a
> >
> > while true ; do setleds +caps +numlock ; sleep 1 ; setleds -caps -numlock ;
> > sleep 1 ; done
> >
> > should trigger it too.
>
> ...and it does.
>
> pavel@amd:~$ while true; do setleds +num; setleds -num; done
> Hm,m so thiis  iis  a teest of fkeyboarad behaviour  under lloadd.
>
> pavel@amd:~$
>
> ...but I'm not quite sure it is a buggy keyboard. It happens _way_ too
> often. Launch the line above and try to do some typing...

This used to work fine on my box last time I tried it (the switch
itself is offloaded to a keventd and shoud not get in the way) but
then they push all kind of ACPI/SMM crap together with KBC so who
knows... I should try it again when I get home.

--
Dmitry
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