>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Surely changing it strikes me as a "wanton change"; making it configurable >> is fine with me; changing the default is not. Especially since PCs have >> a firmware setting which can be controlled; Solaris should not override >> that firmware setting. > >I'm not asserting we should change the default state, I agree with you >that the firmware setting should be respected until such time as the >user presses NumLock to alter that. > >What does need to change is the install program to not be so >"sensitive". We know install needs lots of work anyway and there are >projects in progress for that already.
Oh, absolutely. And it could even do what windows does when you mistype your password; it will tell you when capslock was on. Of course, there's the issue of not being able to tell what the status of the keyboard is; the installer may be running on a real serial console rather than the faked one made up from a graphics device and a keyboard. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
