Bug 450075

Summary:	spurious keyboard light for capslock mapped to ctrl
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Roland McGrath <roland>
Component:	xorg-x11-server	Assignee:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	9	CC:	mcepl, xgl-maint
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Description Roland McGrath 2008-06-05 05:56:07 UTC

I'm not really sure whose problem this is, but seems like the X server.

Vanilla gnome desktop, configured with System->Preferences->Hardware->Keyboard,
go to Layouts tab, hit "Layout Options..." button, "Ctrl key position" and
select "Make CapsLock an additional Ctrl".

With this configuration, the keys work fine.  But, the keyboard light for
capslock toggles every time I use the Ctrl key (physical capslock).

This does not happen in Fedora 8 using the same configuration.

Same thing seen on i386 and x86_64 on different hardware.

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2008-06-05 14:23:50 UTC

Can fully reproduce here. And actually, I had exactly the same problem with
Fedora 8.

Comment 2 David Perkinson 2008-08-09 18:54:14 UTC

Same problem here on both a Dell desktop and a Thinkpad X40 laptop.  There is some relevant discussion here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=737480

Comment 3 Peter Hutterer 2008-09-09 07:31:56 UTC

This commit in rawhide should have fixed this issue, it certainly works in RH now.

* Tue Aug 05 2008 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer> 1.4.99.906-5
- xserver-1.5.0-xkb-fix-ProcXkbSetXYZ-to-work-on-all.patch: force xkb requests
  to apply to all extension devices.

Comment 4 David Perkinson 2008-09-13 23:43:02 UTC

It's still a problem for me (2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686).

Comment 5 Peter Hutterer 2008-09-15 00:10:50 UTC

xorg-x11-server-Xorg has been updated to 1.5.0 in F-9. 

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-8032

Please give it a try and let us know if the issue is fixed.

Comment 6 Roland McGrath 2008-09-18 01:05:41 UTC

Shazam!  Pas de blinkenlight!

rhgb stopped happening on boot after this update, but that is, I presume, an unrelated issue, and is also one I don't actually care about.

Comment 7 David Perkinson 2008-09-19 15:37:21 UTC

The problem is solved as far as I can see.  Thanks.