Package: linux-latest-2.6 Severity: wishlist Hi!
The keyboard driver of Linux supports several modifiers: shift, altgr, control, alt, shiftl, shiftr, ctrll, ctrlr and capsshift. Due to some limitations of the method CapsLock is implemented in the kernel, for several languages it is necessary some other modifier to be used instead of CapsLock. For example console-setup often uses ctrll instead of capslock and the whole purpose of capsshift is to be used as a replacement for capslock. Unfortunately currently it is impossible to tell the kernel to display the state of the ctrll or capsshift modifier with the CapsLock led. As a result the CapsLock led doesn't work for keyboard layouts that can not use the CapsLock modifier. A related bug to this one is #514464. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
