[plug] Panic and keyboard leds

[James Devenish]

In message <20040119071038.GE891 at postoffice.wa.bom.gov.au>
on Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:10:38PM +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> I have a machine that locks up repeatable circumstances.  When that
> happens, the caps lock and scroll lock keys flash.

Interesting...I've taken to doing the opposite (using front-panel or
keyboard LEDs as heartbeats).

> I believe that means something, but after much searching of web and
> kernel docs I can't find anything to tell me what it means. 

For 2.4, Google indicates that the blinking merely shows that a panic
occurred, but there is another result that shows some recent patches
that enable morse code!

> (I failed google 101...)

LOL!