On 10/21/07, Jason D. Clinton me@jasonclinton.com wrote:
X.org 7.3 (which I presume is what is in Ubuntu since they continue to ship unstable piles of crap as "stable") does not have working keyboard LED code. It is said that the problem is so deep and complicated due to the ancient code responsible for this, that a fix is not expected for some time: X.org 7.3.1.
Solution: stop using Ubuntu and switch to the distro that they steal all their package from: Debian. The X.org package which was ripped verbatim from Debian is correctly marked "unstable" in their repositories.
No, my keyboard just does not have physical LEDs, it's one of the 84-key space saver models. Your rant is not applicable for this situation. ;) The issue is that between BIOS boot and user desktop the numlock setting gets flipped.
Jon.