Blinking keyboard lights a sign of distress?

[David A. Bandel]

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On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:07:55 -0600
Alan Jackson <ajackson at oplnk.net> wrote:

> My son's box just went belly-up. It had a blank screen, was
> unresponsive, and the two rightmost led keyboard lights were blinking.
> 
> He is running Mandrake 9.
> 
> What do the blinking lights mean?

An odd series of keypresses will trigger this.  I'm not sure exactly
what they are, my 3 year old can find it every time, but the system is
going into a kernel debugger mode.  Unfortunately, when you start it up
you must be in a VT, not X.  Recompile your kernel without the kernel
debugger (or stop leaning on the keyboard).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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