suddenly, "xset led 3" doesn't turn on USB keyboard backlighting

[Robert P. J. Day]

  been using an external USB keyboard on my ASUS laptop for quite some
time, always used "xset led 3" to turn on the keyboard backlighting.
suddenly, it doesn't work anymore. did something there change?

rday

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