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Bug 268821 - Caps Lock and Num Lock LED no longer function with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5
Summary: Caps Lock and Num Lock LED no longer function with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Infrastructure
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Bugzilla (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
URL: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/...
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Reported: 2009-05-06 15:36 UTC by junkmail
Modified: 2011-10-30 23:16 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description junkmail 2009-05-06 15:36:24 UTC
Since updating xorg-server to version 1.5.3-r5 the Caps Lock and Num Lock keyboard LEDs no longer function in the Guest OS. I have tried both Windows 98 and Ubuntu (i386) guests with the same results. The Caps Lock and Num Lock keys do function, just that the keyboard LED doesn't change it's status when they are pressed, and remain fixed at what the host OS (Gentoo AMD64) had set them to. Problem verified on 2 separate systems with different chipsets but similar software setups.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Update xorg server to version 1.5.3-r5
2. Feel the pain

Actual Results:  
When pressing Caps Lock or Num Lock the LED doesn't change it's status.

Expected Results:  
Caps Lock and Num Lock LEDs change status when Caps Lock or Num Lock keys are pressed.

When using evdev and hal I had to put the following line into /etc/vmware/config to get functioning number pad and caps lock:

xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true

Disabling hal in xorg removed the necessity to add the above line to vmware's config file

Using the following packages:

app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.8.126538
app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2

$ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.11 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_Dual_Core_Processor_4850e-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 06 May 2009 00:45:02 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ABI="amd64"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol"
APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias"
ARCH="amd64"
ASFLAGS_x86="--32"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CCACHE_DIR="/var/tmp/ccache/"
CCACHE_SIZE="2G"
CDEFINE_amd64="__x86_64__"
CDEFINE_x86="__i386__"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2"
CFLAGS_x86="-m32"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CHOST_amd64="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CHOST_x86="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CLEAN_DELAY="5"
COLLISION_IGNORE="/lib/modules"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CVS_RSH="ssh"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2"
DCCC_PATH="/usr/lib/distcc/bin"
DEFAULT_ABI="amd64"
DISTCC_LOG=""
DISTCC_VERBOSE="0"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EDITOR="/bin/nano"
ELIBC="glibc"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--verbose"
EMERGE_WARNING_DELAY="10"
FEATURES="buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 5 -T 60 --passive-ftp -O "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}""
GCC_SPECS=""
GDK_USE_XFT="1"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.virginmedia.com http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
HOME="/home/bob"
INFOPATH="/usr/share/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.18/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/info"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"
KDEDIRS="/usr:/usr/local:/usr/kde/3.5"
KERNEL="linux"
KRB5CCNAME=""
LANG="en_GB"
LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text"
LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LDFLAGS_x86="-m elf_i386"
LESS="-R -M --shift 5"
LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s"
LIBDIR_amd64="lib64"
LIBDIR_amd64_fbsd="lib64"
LIBDIR_ppc="lib32"
LIBDIR_ppc64="lib64"
LIBDIR_sparc32="lib32"
LIBDIR_sparc64="lib64"
LIBDIR_x86="lib32"
LIBDIR_x86_fbsd="lib32"
LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH="/usr/lib64/dri:/usr/lib32/dri"
LINGUAS="en_GB"
LOGNAME="bob"
LS_COLORS="no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=30;43:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.svgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.pdf=00;32:*.ps=00;32:*.txt=00;32:*.patch=00;32:*.diff=00;32:*.log=00;32:*.tex=00;32:*.doc=00;32:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:"
MAIL="/var/mail/bob"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
MANPATH="/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.18/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/man:/usr/lib64/php5/man/:/usr/kde/3.5/share/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man:/opt/vmware/server/man"
MULTILIB_ABIS="amd64 x86"
MULTILIB_STRICT_DENY="64-bit.*shared object"
MULTILIB_STRICT_DIRS="/lib32 /lib /usr/lib32 /usr/lib /usr/kde/*/lib32 /usr/kde/*/lib /usr/qt/*/lib32 /usr/qt/*/lib /usr/X11R6/lib32 /usr/X11R6/lib"
MULTILIB_STRICT_EXEMPT="(perl5|gcc|gcc-lib|binutils|eclipse-3|debug|portage)"
NETBEANS="apisupport cnd groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler soa visualweb webcommon websvccommon xml"
OPENGL_PROFILE="xorg-x11"
PAGER="/usr/bin/less"
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/opt/vmware/server/bin"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/qt/3/lib64/pkgconfig"
PORTAGE_ARCHLIST="ppc s390 amd64 x86 ppc64 x86-fbsd m68k arm sparc sh mips ia64 alpha hppa amd64-fbsd sparc-fbsd"
PORTAGE_BINHOST_CHUNKSIZE="3000"
PORTAGE_BIN_PATH="/usr/lib64/portage/bin"
PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES="css gif htm[l]? jp[e]?g js pdf png"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_DEBUG="0"
PORTAGE_DEPCACHEDIR="/var/cache/edb/dep"
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="log warn error"
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage@localhost"
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="[portage] ebuild log for ${PACKAGE} on ${HOST}"
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="root"
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save_summary echo"
PORTAGE_FETCH_CHECKSUM_TRY_MIRRORS="5"
PORTAGE_FETCH_RESUME_MIN_SIZE="350K"
PORTAGE_GID="250"
PORTAGE_INST_GID="0"
PORTAGE_INST_UID="0"
PORTAGE_PYM_PATH="/usr/lib64/portage/pym"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_RETRIES="3"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTAGE_VERBOSE="1"
PORTAGE_WORKDIR_MODE="0700"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local"
PROFILE_ONLY_VARIABLES="ARCH ELIBC KERNEL USERLAND"
PWD="/home/bob"
QMAKESPEC="linux-g++"
QTDIR="/usr/qt/3"
RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -c -t 5 -T 60 --passive-ftp -O "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}""
ROOT="/"
ROOTPATH="/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2:/usr/kde/3.5/sbin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/opt/vmware/server/bin"
RPMDIR="/usr/portage/rpm"
SHELL="/bin/bash"
SHLVL="1"
SSH_CLIENT="127.0.0.1 59138 70"
SSH_CONNECTION="127.0.0.1 59138 127.0.0.1 70"
SSH_TTY="/dev/pts/2"
STAGE1_USE="multilib nptl nptlonly unicode"
SYMLINK_LIB="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
TERM="xterm"
USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 arts berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm hal iconv isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal ldap libnotify mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx vesa"
USER="bob"
USERLAND="GNU"
USE_EXPAND="ALSA_CARDS ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS APACHE2_MODULES APACHE2_MPMS CAMERAS CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS DVB_CARDS ELIBC FCDSL_CARDS FOO2ZJS_DEVICES FRITZCAPI_CARDS INPUT_DEVICES KERNEL LCD_DEVICES LINGUAS LIRC_DEVICES MISDN_CARDS NETBEANS_MODULES USERLAND VIDEO_CARDS"
USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN="CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS ELIBC KERNEL USERLAND"
USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal:env.d"
VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx vesa"
XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:/usr/kde/3.5/share:/usr/local/share"
_="/usr/bin/emerge"
_PMT_DEBUG_LEVEL="0"

/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option      "AutoAddDevices"    "false"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "GLcore"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "type1"
        Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "dri"
        Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbLayout"   "gb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"

EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "Unknown Board"
        BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth 24

        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes     "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes     "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection
Comment 1 Rafał Mużyło 2009-05-06 17:09:31 UTC
I don't see a bug here.
You said yourself:
When using evdev and hal I had to put the following line into
/etc/vmware/config to get functioning number pad and caps lock:

xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true

For a better reference:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-May/045462.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-May/045476.html
Comment 2 junkmail 2009-05-06 17:18:19 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> I don't see a bug here.
> You said yourself:
> When using evdev and hal I had to put the following line into
> /etc/vmware/config to get functioning number pad and caps lock:
> 
> xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true

Sorry, I didn't make it clear what I meant by this. The above line in /etc/vmware/config is required to make the num lock & caps lock keys function using hal/evdev, but when this fix is applied, pressing those keys still fails to change the LED status.
Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-05-11 23:03:47 UTC
I have no idea what vmware does wrt X input and I don't see how I could figure it out.

If your Gentoo host system works as usual when vmware is not running (ie a standard desktop session), then there's nothing for the X11 herd to fix.

Thanks
Comment 4 junkmail 2009-05-12 10:00:24 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)

The keyboard functions perfectly in the Gentoo host, regardless of whether vmware is running or not. It's just in the clients that the problem arises, and this only started with the update of xorg-server. I can understand how it would be difficult for a Gentoo developer to sort this, but wanted to report it here first before going to vmware. I am surprised that no-one else appears to be affected by this though.
Comment 5 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-08-17 21:11:46 UTC
As I suggested in comment #3, please file a bug in vmware's bug tracker as I have no idea what's going on.

Thanks
Comment 6 junkmail 2009-08-18 23:32:16 UTC
vmware bug reporting is very confusing. Anyway, I've posted a message at:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/226879

Have you been able to reproduce the bug?
Comment 7 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-08-19 05:55:50 UTC
No, I don't use vmware. That's why I requested you open the bug, it's much faster if you do so yourself :)

Thanks
Comment 8 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-08-19 05:56:24 UTC
And closing with the proper resolution.

Thanks for the feedback, we greatly appreciate it :)