Bug#422273: xserver-xorg-input-evdev: Num Lock light indicator stopped functioning
Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
> On Fri, 04 May 2007 20:25:43 +0200,
> Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
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>> Did you upgrade some kde packages recently? (/var/log/dpkg.log might be
>> helpful) Does the problem happens if you don't use KDM at all? either
>> use startx directly to login, or use xdm or gdm? The only related bug I
>> found in KDE is #395570 but it does not look similar to you problem.
>>
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> I don't know how to use startx or activate gdm (I do have it installed),
> rather than kdm.
dpkg-reconfigure gdm shoud ask you to choose between gdm/kdm/xdm/...
Anyway, to eliminate all possible problems related to X, the best would
be to disable gdm/kdm/xdm/... at startup (moving their /etc/init.d/foo
script away temporarily is an easy way to do so), reboot (you shouldn't
get X started automatically) and check whether the problem occurs.
> However, I found something else. During boot-up the
> light is on, but if I hit the Num Lock key at this stage it gets turned
> off for good; i.e. it can't be toggled back on. This suggests it's a
> kernel problem. So maybe this bug should go to linux-image-2.6.20-1-amd64
> or the headers package?
I would rather say linux-image-2.6.20-1-amd64 since the headers are
basically useless as long as you don't build anything. Before
reassigning the bug to linux-2.6, it would be good to downgrade to the
previous kernel (probably linux-image-2.6.18-foo-amd64, see
/var/log/dpkg.log) or reboot on it if it is still installed, and see
whether the problems goes away.
Brice
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