[ltp] NumLock going crazy, extermly annoying problem

[Richard Neill]

Yoni Levy wrote:
> 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...

The first is probably a result of the packaging of the application. 
After all, if you *did* want to have tleds installed, you'd (probably) 
want it to be a system service. It's only a bug if it got installed
by default rather than by you selecting it.

The second is definitely a bug!

Richard


> 
> 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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