Keyboard issue - Numbers pad not working together with back-light led

Hello,

I’m using the keyboard from Cooler Master Brand, Model CMStorm, witch has a blue led back-light. After installation Manjaro almost everything was working fine except accentuation, but is was fixed as with the command:
$ setxkbmap -model abnt2 -layout br -variant abnt2

Current Keyboard Settings
Keyboard Model: Generic | Generic 105-key PC - Default Keyboard Model
Portuguese Brazil - Portuguese (Brazil, no dead keys)

At windows the LED can be turned on/off through Scroll Lock key but unfortunately at Linux it doesn’t work so I did my home work and found the function to turn it on/off on linux so I found the command “xset led” and it worked. Follow, to next step was to make it work from user logon and I was able to create a simple script to make it work too.

The issue:
When the back-light LED is ON my numbers pad stop working, regardless if Num Lock is “on” or “off” and to make it work again I need to turn the back-light LED off.

I expect both being able to work together. Is there a way to fix this issue?

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.19-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64 
  root=UUID=c2987d0a-3ccc-4056-bdcb-22de9c2fbb5f ro quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor resume=UUID=87d4ac5e-e22c-413e-806a-74ff152a793e 
  udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.2 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: GA-870A-UD3 v: x.x serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: Award v: F5 date: 08/01/2011 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.77 GiB used: 1.78 GiB (23.0%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: AMD Phenom II X4 965 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: K10 
  family: 10 (16) model-id: 4 stepping: 3 microcode: 10000C8 L2 cache: 2 MiB 
  bogomips: 27336 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 
  4: 800 
  Flags: 3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch abm apic clflush cmov cmp_legacy 
  constant_tsc cpuid cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de extapic extd_apicid fpu fxsr 
  fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibs lahf_lm lbrv lm mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext 
  monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw pae pat pdpe1gb pge 
  pni popcnt pse pse36 rdtscp rep_good sep skinit sse sse2 sse4a svm svm_lock 
  syscall tsc vme vmmcall wdt 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Not affected 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 
  mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] 
  vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 1002:67df class ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa 
  display ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
  s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
  Monitor-1: DVI-D-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 96 
  size: 510x290mm (20.1x11.4") diag: 587mm (23.1") 
  OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 570 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.40.0 
  5.10.19-1-MANJARO LLVM 11.1.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.4 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia vendor: Gigabyte GA-880GMA-USB3 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:14.2 chip ID: 1002:4383 
  class ID: 0403 
  Device-2: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] 
  vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
  chip ID: 1002:aaf0 class ID: 0403 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.19-1-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 9e00 bus ID: 06:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 class ID: 0200 
  IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros TP-Link TL-WN821N v2 / TL-WN822N v1 802.11n 
  [Atheros AR9170] 
  type: USB driver: carl9170 bus ID: 2-4:2 chip ID: 0cf3:1002 class ID: ff00 
  serial: <filter> 
  IF: wlp0s19f2u4 state: down mac: <filter> 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Message: No Bluetooth data was found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data was found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.48 TiB used: 1.83 TiB (73.6%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: SanDisk model: SSD PLUS 240GB 
  size: 223.58 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 00RL scheme: MBR 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Corsair model: Corsair Force GS 
  size: 119.24 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 5.07 scheme: MBR 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Patriot model: Burst size: 223.57 GiB 
  block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: SSD 
  serial: <filter> rev: KB.3 scheme: MBR 
  ID-4: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 vendor: Crucial model: CT120BX100SSD1 
  size: 111.79 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: MU01 scheme: GPT 
  ID-5: /dev/sde maj-min: 8:64 vendor: Western Digital model: WD20PURZ-85GU6Y0 
  size: 1.82 TiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0A80 scheme: MBR 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVDRAM GH22NS50 rev: TN02 
  dev-links: cdrom 
  Features: speed: 48 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 214.77 GiB size: 210.4 GiB (97.96%) 
  used: 28.47 GiB (13.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 
  label: LINUX-SSD uuid: c2987d0a-3ccc-4056-bdcb-22de9c2fbb5f 
  ID-2: /home/<filter>/Games raw size: 111.79 GiB size: 109.53 GiB (97.98%) 
  used: 57.93 GiB (52.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdd1 maj-min: 8:49 
  label: LINUX-GAMES uuid: 49fbfc03-2923-49f0-a550-312f1f31aae3 
  ID-3: /home/<filter>/HDD-DATA-NTFS raw size: 1.82 TiB 
  size: 1.82 TiB (100.00%) used: 1.74 TiB (95.8%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sde1 
  maj-min: 8:65 label: DATA_2T uuid: 28A6726FA6723CFE 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 label: N/A 
  uuid: 87d4ac5e-e22c-413e-806a-74ff152a793e 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 100 MiB fs: ntfs label: System Reserved 
  uuid: E680DA2C5F90FD24 
  ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 223.48 GiB fs: ntfs label: WIN-SSD 
  uuid: 07492E03A516286B 
  ID-3: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 119.24 GiB fs: ntfs label: WIN-GAMES 
  uuid: EAE6EE7DE6EE4A01 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 5 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 5 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 2-4:2 info: Qualcomm Atheros TP-Link TL-WN821N v2 / TL-WN822N v1 
  802.11n [Atheros AR9170] 
  type: Network driver: carl9170 interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 0cf3:1002 class ID: ff00 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 5 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0001 class ID: 0900 
  Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 5 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0001 class ID: 0900 
  Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0001 class ID: 0900 
  Hub-7: 7-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0001 class ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 7-3:2 info: SINO WEALTH USB KEYBOARD type: Keyboard,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 258a:0001 class ID: 0300 
  Device-2: 7-4:3 info: Pixart Imaging Optical Mouse type: Mouse 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 093a:2521 class ID: 0301 
  Hub-8: 8-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900 
  Hub-9: 9-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0003 class ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 37.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 42.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 924 
Info:
  Processes: 230 Uptime: 40m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: 
  gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 1352 pacman: 1345 lib: 424 flatpak: 7 Shell: Bash 
  v: 5.1.0 running in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.01 

Issue fixed, it was need to add the number 3 in the command syntax

$ xset led 3

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