Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:50:22 +0100 | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: PATCH : LEDs - possibly the most pointless kernel subsystem ever |
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> > Would this (now or in the future) by any chance let one use the keyboard > > leds for stuff without activating their num lock, caps lock and scroll > > lock functionality? I'd like to use one of them (at least) as a network > > traffic indicator but so far I get the sideffects of the functionality > > being on also. Most annoying when typing. :/ > > The use of LEDs as random lights instead of as keyboard status indicators > has been possible since very early times. See the kernel code, or setleds(1).
The keyboard LEDs are far too slow to access to use for 'front-panel' type applications, though.
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