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

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Jun 04 2007 - 09:09:19 EST


On Mon 2007-06-04 14:35:23, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > I started getting blinking capslock leds in 2.6.22-somewhere. Every 5
> > seconds or so, capslock led toggles on thinkpad x60. Ouch. I also get
> > some stuck keys I was not getting before. I hope my userland did not go
> > crazy...
>
> Hi Pavel,
>
> what does
>
> grep BLINK .config
> show.

CONFIG_BLINK=y

OOps. WTF is that?

config BLINK
tristate "Keyboard blink driver"
help
Driver that when loaded will blink the keyboard LEDs
continuously.
This is useful for debugging and for kernels that cannot
necessarily
output something to the screen like kexec kernels to give
the user
a visual indication that the kernel is doing something.


..does it need "default n"? Why does it make keys stuck sometimes?
Pavel

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