[SOLVED] Macbook caps lock light

[vakyoomluigi]

I've gotten everything working with ubuntu on my macbook, but one little thing still doesn't work: the tiny green light on the caps lock key. I know it sounds minor, but it's starting to bother me. How do I fix this?

[manuG]

Hi,

You need to uninstall mouseemu.

apt-get --purge remove mouseemu

and then reboot.

[hyperboloid]

You need to uninstall mouseemu.

apt-get --purge remove mouseemu

and then reboot.

I see the same issue with the caps lock LED on a Macbook Pro 4,1 (Penryn) under Intrepid. For the record: Removing mouseemu does not do the trick for me. Not that this is important...

[vakyoomluigi]

Yay! It worked

[beauman]

I see the same issue with the caps lock LED on a Macbook Pro 4,1 (Penryn) under Intrepid. For the record: Removing mouseemu does not do the trick for me. Not that this is important...

ok, so for vakyoomluigi it worked and for hyperboloid it didn't work?


I did write something about it in the wiki yesterday, and I need people to test it: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacBook/Sant...t%20Cmd%20Keys

hyperboloid, can you have a look at the wiki and see, if it really does not
fix the LED issue? did you reboot? thanx!

[hyperboloid]

hyperboloid, can you have a look at the wiki and see, if it really does not
fix the LED issue? did you reboot? thanx!

Beauman, yes I confirm that removing mouseemu does NOT fix the caps lock LED on a MBP 4,1 (Penryn). It does fix F11 key, but has no effect on the LED. Rebooting does not help.

Must be something else going on...

[beauman]

Ok, the wiki is for MB 4,1 not MBP 4,1. So it's a different hardware.
It's still hard to believe. Do you do any other tweaking with the
keyboard with pommed or xmodmap?

[hyperboloid]

Ok, the wiki is for MB 4,1 not MBP 4,1. So it's a different hardware.
It's still hard to believe. Do you do any other tweaking with the
keyboard with pommed or xmodmap?

Pommed is not installed.

I am indeed remapping the caps lock key to emulate Mouse button 2, using xmodmap. And when I remove that remapping, my caps lock LED functions normally again!

Good call - that was the problem. So the instruction to remove mouseemu works for the MBP 4,1 as well. This is settled. Thanks, Beauman.

[cyberdork33]

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