[ltp] NumLock going crazy, extermly annoying problem

[Yoni Levy]

Problem solved !
It was in fact an application called tleds.
Two question remain - how did it get to my /etc/init.d, and why does it 
affect the keyboard output ..
I'll ask the authors of tleds, hope to get an answer...

Thanks a lot Richard and Konstantin, I can use my thinkpad again :-)

Richard Neill wrote:

>
>
> Konstantin Filtschew wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> you've installed a package, don't know how it's called, but it was
>> something to use the Numlock for blinking of the network.
>>
>> Try to search for such a software on your laptop.
>>
>
> It might be "ifled".
>
> When you find it, please also report a bug to the author. It should 
> flash the LEDs, but should definitely not mess up your keyboard!
>
> BTW for anyone interested, you can have fun with:
>     while : ; do
>         xset led 3 ; xset -led 2
>         sleep 0.5
>         xset -led 3 ; xset led 2
>         sleep 0.5
>     done
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
>
>> Greetz
>>
>> Konstantin Filtschew
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 17:51 +0200, Yoni Levy wrote:
>>
>>> I am using  Thinkpad r50e.
>>>
>>> Every 2-3 seconds, the green light behind the NumLock status 
>>> indicator gets lit, and NumLock is activated.
>>>
>>> It only stays lit for about half a second but if i type in that 
>>> time, the character output is wrong ( * instead of p for example).
>>>
>>> When i try to manipulate the NumLock status, it doesn't work at all 
>>> (pressing shift+ScrLk has no effect).
>>>
>>> I've also identified a connection between the left-most status icon 
>>> (wireless network indicator? i don't know, i don't use wifi) - once 
>>> the wifi status icon is lit, the NumLock stays shut, but when it's 
>>> not, the NumLock goes crazy.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any help will be appreciated, this is really frustrating ...
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Yoni
>>>
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