Bug 743201 - keyboard LED indicator acting weird
Summary: keyboard LED indicator acting weird
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 6.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Don Zickus
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
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Blocks: 767187
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-04 08:15 UTC by Tomas Pelka
Modified: 2015-09-17 15:50 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-09-17 15:50:06 UTC
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Description Tomas Pelka 2011-10-04 08:15:30 UTC
Description of problem:
When having two USB keyboards attached and suppose that Scroll Lock LED indicates the keyboard layout change the indicator lid only on keyboard where a made the keyboard change. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.32-203.el6

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have two keyboards attached, have gnome-session stared, have at least two keyboard layouts. I Keyboard preferences check Keys(s) to change layout->Both Shift keys together and Use keyboard LED to show alternative layout->Scroll Lock 
2. Try to switch layout on one of attached keyboards using keys to change layout (both Shifts together in my case)
3. Watch LED indicators (Scroll Lock in my case) on both kayboards
  
Actual results:
Only one indicator lid. The one where I pressed the keys to change layout.

Expected results:
Both Scroll Locks should lid. Num Lock works this way.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tomas Pelka 2011-10-04 08:25:11 UTC
Same behaviour when pressing Caps Lock.

When changing the layout by keyboard widget all works as expected.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2011-10-07 15:52:45 UTC
Since RHEL 6.2 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as
exception or blocker.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the
next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 6 Suzanne Logcher 2012-05-18 20:51:02 UTC
This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.


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