[ltp] NumLock going crazy, extermly annoying problem

[Konstantin Filtschew]

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hi,

it's the same how it got on a laptop on my friend, he installed
everything for thinkpad from debian ;)

It should be the same for you.


Greetz

Konstantin Filtschew



On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 01:26 +0200, 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=20
> affect the keyboard output ..
> I'll ask the authors of tleds, hope to get an answer...
>=20
> Thanks a lot Richard and Konstantin, I can use my thinkpad again :-)
>=20
> Richard Neill wrote:
>=20
> >
> >
> > 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=20
> > 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=20
> >>> indicator gets lit, and NumLock is activated.
> >>>
> >>> It only stays lit for about half a second but if i type in that=20
> >>> 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=20
> >>> (pressing shift+ScrLk has no effect).
> >>>
> >>> I've also identified a connection between the left-most status icon=20
> >>> (wireless network indicator? i don't know, i don't use wifi) - once=20
> >>> the wifi status icon is lit, the NumLock stays shut, but when it's=20
> >>> not, the NumLock goes crazy.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Any help will be appreciated, this is really frustrating ...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Yoni
> >>>
> >
>=20
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