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    SubjectRe: Linus' laptop and Num lock status
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    On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 11:12 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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    > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Dax Kelson wrote:
    > >
    > > Are there any technical or political reasons why kernel can't change
    > > from "force off" to "Follow BIOS"?
    >
    > How would you query it? I'm not even 100% sure that you can on all
    > keyboards. We never query the leds, we always set them. I think. I don't
    > know of any AT kbd command to read the led state out of the keyboard.

    and if there was one.. wanne take bets on how well it works with the
    various SMM emulated USB keyboards out there? ;)


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