Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:34:35 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Linus' laptop and Num lock status |
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Jean Delvare wrote: > > On x86, the BIOS led state can be read from byte 0x97 the BIOS RAM. The > BIOS RAM is mapped at 0x400 so all we need to do is to one byte from > RAM (offset 0x497). This is how Suse's hwinfo does. >
Perhaps that's what Suse does, but the proper address is 0x417.
0x497 is the rarely-used LPT2 timeout ocunter.
-hpa
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