Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:27:15 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: i386 AT keyboard LED question. |
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:17:19AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > >Some old notebooks forget them on, which makes the keyboard unusable - > >you get '4' instead of 'u', etc. > > > Not only old notebooks, but all 84-key keyboards with Num > functionality are affected AFAICS.
If we forced the LED to ON everytime, they would be. If we used the BIOS setting (by peeking into the BIOS area), then only a few machines would have a problem - the BIOS defaults are often either correct or correctable by the user.
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