Comment 184 for bug 195982

When evaluating the 2.6.26 kernel proposed for Intrepid, I found that my experience of the bug (keyboard LEDs desynchronized from Caps/NumLock state) changed somewhat:

Within vmplayer: the LEDs do not toggle with the VM's state, but
Natively: When returning focus to the native environment the state before focus went to the VM is preserved/represented accurately.

This also involved upgrading to the latest version of vmplayer, installing all available Hardy updates as of last week (week of 9/7/08) or so, rebuilding the modules as required, etc.

As a heads-up, 2.6.27 (also proposed for Intrepid) removes some facilities VMWare relies on, so building the modules against same might not be possible at "this time" (unless they've released a new version since I did that testing ~last week). I have no strong opinion as to whether that's a mark against 2.6.27 (both kernels resolve my other pet bugs, and if whatever API that was is departing Linux it'll have to be dealt with someday), just warning to expect VMWare headaches if testing it right now.