Hi, Well, it's quite an old issue, but it looks like no one cared much before :) So by default, on Fedora and RHEL at least*, the Caps Lock LED is broken while in a VT. I tracked down the issue to be a change in ckbcomp introduced because the kernel just can't properly handle all keymaps. However, if the keymap now works thanks to the work around in place, the LED just doesn't. This series aims at trying to have a consistent LEDs status while in VT. It detects the ckbcomp workaround (which seems mainline now), and syncs both caps lock with left control lock when it has to. This way, we shouldn't break existing user-space if the distribution changes the trigger to kbd-controllllock instead of kbd-capslock. Cheers, Benjamin * ubuntu also seems affected: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/425704 Benjamin Tissoires (4): tty/vt/keyboard: use defined macros for masks tty/vt/keyboard: Fix Caps Lock LED on major distributions tty/vt/keyboard: reset the LEDs state at each console change Input: leds - force the LED status after .probe() drivers/input/input-leds.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- 2.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
