[plug] keyboard lights flash - why?

[W.Kenworthy]

dmesg ??

If all 3 are flashing at a reasonably fast rate, its usually an
indication of a fatal kernel crash/oops - which it isnt in this case.
I'd still have a look at dmesg and see if its non-fatal errors or
something ...

Billk


On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 07:30 +0800, Clare Johnstone wrote:
> Dear all,
> Using an ancient old-fashiooned keyboard with lights labelled
> Num Lock, Caps Lock, Scroll Lock - I am accustomed to them
> flashing when the machine is turned on, but why would they
> flash when I am quietly reading gmail? (no cron job at this time
> either). Is this a sign of impending doom?
> thanks
> clare
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