From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272890AbTG3NTP (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:19:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272889AbTG3NTP (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:19:15 -0400 Received: from nessie.weebeastie.net ([61.8.7.205]:9177 "EHLO nessie.weebeastie.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272884AbTG3NTM (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:19:12 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 23:20:15 +1000 From: CaT To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Philip Graham Willoughby , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: PATCH : LEDs - possibly the most pointless kernel subsystem ever Message-ID: <20030730132015.GN1395@zip.com.au> References: <20030729151701.GA6795@bodmin.doc.ic.ac.uk> <20030730063657.GH1395@zip.com.au> <20030730130015.GA2507@win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030730130015.GA2507@win.tue.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organisation: Furball Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 03:00:15PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:36:57PM +1000, CaT wrote: > > > 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). Yes. That works. Strange. Every util I tried that was to do what I want failed because it also activated the functionality so I figured they couldn't -all- be wrong. :) How wrong I was. Thanks for the heads-up. -- "How can I not love the Americans? They helped me with a flat tire the other day," he said. - http://tinyurl.com/h6fo