Re: Strange Number Lock Behavior
Seneca <seneca-cunningham@rogers.com> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:07:59PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:49:06PM -0500, Erinn wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Previously, I had an all text Debian firewall. Everytime I would boot
>> > it, the number lock would turn off. I thought it was specific to that
>> > box until I installed Debian on my workstation. The behavior persists
>> > and as I'd never witnessed it in any previous operating system, I
>> > thought it was Debian-specific, and was wondering two things:
>> >
>> > 1. Has anyone else experienced this?
>>
>> All Linux users have. The kernel pretty much assumes the BIOS is an
>> idiot and ignores it.
>>
>> > 2. If so, is there any way to stop it?
>>
>> Probably. Easiest is to hit number lock. 8:o)
>
> Take a look at /etc/console-tools/config.
I use `setleds -D +num' from the console-tools package. I put a
script in /etc/init.d to invoke this for all consoles.
This is only for the console. For X you need numlockx, from the
package of the same name.
Regards,
Bob
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