Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Caps Lock

 

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Stan Gorodenski stanlep@commspeed.net
[LINUX_Newbies] <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> The Caps Lock light will not come on when I press the Caps Lock button.
> At first I thought it was a defective keyboard, but I have tried three
> keyboards. The light will not come on on any of them, but they do when I
> plug them into my laptop. After the test on my laptop, instead of
> letting my new Dell Inspiron 3668 pc launch Ubuntu when it boots up, I
> went into the setup screen (bios and other stuff) and the Caps Lock
> light comes on there. So, it is not a problem with the new pc but,
> instead, is a problem with Ubuntu. Is there a command in Ubuntu to
> enable the Caps Lock light to come on, or is this one of the unknown
> problems with using the newest version of amd64 server on an i3 machine?
> Knowing if Caps Lock is on is important when entering passwords because
> the Caps Lock key might accidentally be hit. I am sure I did not have
> this problem when I was playing around with Ubuntu 32-bit I386 on my
> 2004 vintage machine.
> Stan

Does the shift switch occur, or is Caps Lock completely broken?

In any case, this is a very old bug, it's kernel related and has to do
with UTF-8 encoding and certain character sets.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/425704
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514464

The upstream debian bug has more detail.

The tl;dr version is that it's apparently not so trivial to fix. If
you connect to your server via SSH from a desktop, caps lock light
will work. If you hit CTRL-ALT-F2 on a Debian desktop system, you'll
find this ALSO occurs on the TTY (Text Console). It's not an Ubuntu
bug, it's a Kernel bug from way back that likely will never be fixed.
The GUI environment uses a different mechanism to address/map the keys
and functions on a keyboard, so the light works there. But in a pure
console, it just ain't gonna happen.

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