Hi Pekka, On Sunday 01 April 2007 07:49, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On 3/30/07, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? >
Are you saying that NumLock LED is lit or that keyboard is in NumLock state? Does the same happen if you boot with init=/bin/bash? -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
