From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932489AbXBNTMo (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:12:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932449AbXBNTMo (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:12:44 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:40253 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932489AbXBNTMn (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:12:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:12:23 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Dax Kelson cc: linux-kernel , Jean Delvare Subject: Re: Linus' laptop and Num lock status In-Reply-To: <1171479361.3706.48.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> Message-ID: References: <1171479361.3706.48.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Dax Kelson wrote: > > Are there any technical or political reasons why kernel can't change > from "force off" to "Follow BIOS"? How would you query it? I'm not even 100% sure that you can on all keyboards. We never query the leds, we always set them. I think. I don't know of any AT kbd command to read the led state out of the keyboard. Linus