Bug 9964

Summary:	Wrong state of NumLock LED with 2 X servers started or state of NumLock LED is not preserved
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Lukasz Wieczorek <lukaswu>
Component:	Input/evdev	Assignee:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	drdarkraven, lukaswu
Version:	7.5 (2009.10)
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Lukasz Wieczorek 2007-02-13 00:42:22 UTC

1. Start the first X server: startx
2. Hit the NumLock to let the NumLock LED on (my default state of NumLock is off)
3. Switch to another console and start second X server: Ctrl+Alt+F1, startx -- :1, the NumLock is off, so is NumLock LED
4. Switch to the first Xserver, the number keyboard is working though NumLock LED is off; it needs to be hit twice to correct the state.

Comment 1 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:36:23 UTC

Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.

Comment 2 Brice Goglin 2007-04-09 00:07:38 UTC

The same problem has been reported by Kurt Roeckx in the Debian BTS (see 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418298), and I can reproduce here with the latest release.

You don't even need to start a second X server to reproduce. Just switch to a virtual text console and then back to X. The numlock LED will be off while numlock seems to be enabled.

Comment 3 DarkRaven 2010-08-12 03:54:04 UTC

Problem still exists,
with:
kernel 2.6.35
xorg-server:1.8.1.902
evdev input driver
either Nvidia or nouveau driver
without:
xorg-input-kbd

Comment 4 Peter Hutterer 2016-11-28 04:39:51 UTC

This is a mass change of bugs. Bugs assigned to me that haven't been updated in the last 3 years are closed as WONTFIX, because, well, let's at least be honest about it.

Please do not re-open unless you have a really good reason to do so (e.g. you're fixing it yourself). If it hasn't been fixed in the last 3 years, it probably won't be fixed anytime soon either. Sorry.

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