Re: Bug#514464: caps lock led does not show up

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Anton Zinoviev, le Thu 02 Jul 2015 19:39:06 +0300, a écrit :
> > Anton, do you have all the informations you need to match that with the
> > xkb data?
> 
> But here, I don't understand what matching with xkb data you mean?

I mean matching the LED names from xkb with the LED names from Linux

> I have the following questions:
> 
> 1. Is there a packaged Debian kernel with this functionality I can use?

Not yet.

> 2. Suppose the new keyboard layout requires a trigger different from 
> kbd-ctrlllock (because the user used KMAP in /etc/default/keyboard or 
> installed console-setup-mini).  I can echo the new trigger for the 
> existing keyboards, but what about the udev rules?  Can they change on 
> the fly?  Or maybe there is some way not to hardcode the trigger in the 
> udev rule but read it from a separate file each time the rule activates?

You can just overwrite the udev rule with the new value.

> BTW, at the moment I think it will be best if I write a script kbd_leds 
> and propose it for inclusion in the console utilities package 'kbd'.  
> Definitely, this is a functionality useful not only for console-setup 
> users.  Then console-setup will be able to use the combination 
> kbd_mode+loadkeys+kbd_leds in order to configure the keyboard.

Ah, yes, that can be useful indeed.

Samuel
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