Caps lock XOR on multiple keyboards?

2012-12-03 Thread George Spelvin
(Moving to linux-input.) I happen to have both a PS/2 and USB keyboard plugged, in, but was noticing that the caps lock key seemed inverted. When the LED was off, I got all caps (unless I used shift), while when it was on I got normal lower-case letters. This quite confused me, until I looked ov

Re: Caps lock XOR on multiple keyboards?

2013-03-24 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! On Mon 2012-12-03 23:58:48, Alan Cox wrote: > On 3 Dec 2012 16:19:11 -0500 > "George Spelvin" wrote: > > > (Not sure who owns this; Cc: to the last few people to touch > > drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c.) > > linux-input is probably the best place to discuss this Added few more ccs. Yes, I see t

Re: Caps lock XOR on multiple keyboards?

2013-03-24 Thread Pavel Machek
On Sun 2013-03-24 11:30:18, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > On Mon 2012-12-03 23:58:48, Alan Cox wrote: > > On 3 Dec 2012 16:19:11 -0500 > > "George Spelvin" wrote: > > > > > (Not sure who owns this; Cc: to the last few people to touch > > > drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c.) > > > > linux-input is probabl

Re: Caps lock XOR on multiple keyboards?

2013-03-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I can confirm that things go fine on the Linux console. There is just one state, which is shown on all keyboards. This is really a bug in Xorg, please report the issue there. Pavel Machek, le Sun 24 Mar 2013 11:30:18 +0100, a écrit : > There is patch to drive keyboard LEDs through LED su

Re: Caps lock XOR on multiple keyboards?

2013-03-26 Thread Peter Korsgaard
> "Samuel" == Samuel Thibault writes: Samuel> Pavel Machek, le Sun 24 Mar 2013 11:30:18 +0100, a écrit : >> There is patch to drive keyboard LEDs through LED subsystem, perhaps >> that would be good idea? Samuel> My patch won't fix the issue for Xorg, but it'd still be a good Samuel> th

Re: Caps lock XOR on multiple keyboards?

2012-12-03 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi George, On Monday, December 03, 2012 07:01:01 PM George Spelvin wrote: > (Moving to linux-input.) > > I happen to have both a PS/2 and USB keyboard plugged, in, but was > noticing that the caps lock key seemed inverted. When the LED was off, > I got all caps (unless I used shift), while when

Re: Caps lock XOR on multiple keyboards?

2012-12-04 Thread George Spelvin
> This is known to be broken in X (and should be reported [again] there) but > if you can provide scenario to break it in VT I'd love to know it. Ding ding ding, you win the prize! Yes, I was in X at the time. Me dumbshit; I should have realized that this was relevant and mentioned it. My apolog