Re: How to fix "dell_laptop: Setting old previous keyboard state failed"

From	Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: How to fix "dell_laptop: Setting old previous keyboard state failed"
Date	2017-04-21 11:30 +0200
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 02:49:09AM +0000, 慕 冬亮 wrote:
>   Dear all,
>
>   After I reverted BIOS back to default setting, I found some errors 
>   at boot stage of My Debian Testing.
>
>   [    2.513354] dell_laptop: Setting old previous keyboard state
>   failed
>
>   How do I fix this problem?

A quick googling suggests that this might be to do with your keyboard
backlight. See https://github.com/dell/libsmbios/issues/3

In summary, though, your options are to either build a new libsmbios
using the code from github (as it looks like the fix hasn't been
released yet) or put up with a potentially wonky keyboard backlight
until the fix makes its way to Debian.

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How to fix "dell_laptop: Setting old previous keyboard state failed" 慕 冬亮 <mudongliangabcd@hotmail.com> - 2017-04-21 01:30 +0200
  Re: How to fix "dell_laptop: Setting old previous keyboard state  failed" Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-04-21 11:30 +0200

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