Keyboard Capslock LED not glowing

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I’m running

SuSE-release
openSUSE 42.1 (x86_64)
VERSION = 42.1
CODENAME = Malachite

when the Caps Lock key is toggled on, the LED on the key does not light up. Caps Lock does work, but the LED on the actual physical key does not light up. It’s just the Caps Lock key that doesn’t light up. I’m not sure if it’s just this keyboard, or if any other LED keyboards can reproduce the problem. I’ve never had this problem Opensuse Linux before, so I can’t say if the problem happens throughout older releases. But I have used live-usb-boot Ubuntu and mint and it works perfectly fine. so it’s not a hardware issue with the keyboard itself.

Any suggestion or solutions

Hardware :
Dell Inc. Vostro 3460/0C0NHY, BIOS A19 08/22/2013

cat out put of /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

e.g. KEYTABLE=“de-latin1-nodeadkeys”, “us” or empty for US settings

KEYTABLE=""

Type: integer

Default:

Keyboard delay time in ms (250, 500, 750, 1000)

KBD_DELAY=""

Type: string(2.0,2.1,2.3,2.5,2.7,3.0,3.3,3.7,4.0,4.3,4.6,5.0,5.5,6.0,6.7,7.5,8.0,8.6,9.2,10.0,10.9,12.0,13.3,15.0,16.0,17.1,18.5,20.0,21.8,24.0,26.7,30.0)

Default:

Keyboard repeat rate (2.0 - 30.0)

KBD_RATE=""

Type: list(bios,yes,no)

Default: bios

NumLock on? (“yes” or “no” or empty or “bios” for BIOS setting)

This setting may interfere with GNOME /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/remember_numlock_state GConf key.

KBD_NUMLOCK=“bios”

Type: yesno

Default: no

ScrollLock on? (“yes” or “no”)

KBD_SCRLOCK=“no”

Type: yesno

Default: no

CapsLock on? (“yes” or “no”)

KBD_CAPSLOCK=“no”

Type: yesno

Default: no

Disable CAPS LOCK and make it a normal Shift key?

(Ctrl Caps Lock will still toggle Caps Lock functionality)

Note that you need to tweak the xkb maps or use xmodmap

if you want to do the same under X-Windows. In ~/.Xmodmap:

keycode 0x42 = Shift_L Shift_L

KBD_DISABLE_CAPS_LOCK=“no”

Type: string

Default:

ttys for the above settings

Example: “tty1 tty2”

“” for tty’s 1-6

KBD_TTY=""

COMPOSETABLE=“winkeys shiftctrl”

COMPOSETABLE=“clear latin1.add”

The YaST-internal identifier of the attached keyboard.

YAST_KEYBOARD=“english-us,pc104”

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No problem here. If I click “Caps Lock” the LED shows. If I click again, it stops showing.

Well, on second thoughts – a minor problem here. I login, and NumLock is actually on (it works), but the NumLock light doesn’t show. But if I click it twice, then it shows. Or if I click CapsLock, then the NumLock light also shows. There seems to be an initialization problem. This is KDE (Plasma 5), and I have it set to turn on NumLock when I login. It seems to turn it on functionally, but the LED is not lit at that time. (I don’t normally notice this, unless I make an effort to look).

3

Hi
Is the dell-led kernel module loaded?


lsmod |grep dell

No issues on a DELL Inspiron 5555