Re: NumLock in console

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:51:11 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:

> I want to have NumLock turned on in console automatically that is on
> start up.
> 
> On the web I have found such a solution:
> 
> for tty in /dev/tty[1-6]; do
>     /usr/bin/setleds -D +num < $tty
> done
> 
> But I look for a setting, may in
> 
> /etc/default/keyboard
> 
> to reach my goal instead of performing the above cycle every time the OS
> boots.
> 
> Do You have any idea how to do that?

Not sure if this will work, but "console-tools" package includes the 
ability to turn on the NumLock led, or at least there is a variable that 
seems to do it so:

sm01@stt008:/etc/console-tools$ grep -i num /etc/console-tools/config
# Turn on numlock by default
#LEDS=+num

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón