Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:28:53AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
To the point, why does debian switch off the numlock in the first
place when it has been set on at bios level, and surely most people
want it on anyway?
That's not Debian-specific. The Linux kernel
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 02:58:12AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:28:53AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
To the point, why does debian switch off the numlock in the first
place when it has been set on at bios level, and surely most people
want it on anyway?
note
Hi,
a good thread going here .. _but_
a. am running in console mode so have no fears of what will happen
in x mode
b. i still am unsure of what to do after finding out that debian
does not use rclocal and not comprehending the instructions given
by Colin (as per my 9th Dec reply).
on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 02:58:12AM -0800, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:28:53AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
To the point, why does debian switch off the numlock in the first
place when it has been set on at bios level, and surely
Thus spake Ian Balchin:
Hi,
a good thread going here .. _but_
a. am running in console mode so have no fears of what will happen
in x mode
b. i still am unsure of what to do after finding out that debian
does not use rclocal and not comprehending the instructions given
by
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:28:53AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
To the point, why does debian switch off the numlock in the first
place when it has been set on at bios level, and surely most people
want it on anyway?
That's not Debian-specific. The Linux kernel ignores most BIOS
settings and
Colin,
I _really_ am a newbie! Following on from the comment by Bob
Hilliard, I am running in console mode.
For the file 'numlock-off' do I put in the same script that Karsten
gave me for rc.local?
Where do I put the update line?
To the point, why does debian switch off the numlock in the
Karsten,
Thanks, I have written this into /etc/rc.local which I created as there
was not a file of this name.
However, it has made no change and I did not see the echo message so the
file is maybe not being read.
Next step please?
Regards
Ian
on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:07:52AM +0200, Ian
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 03:58:05PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
Karsten M. Self wrote:
Place this in in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local to activate Numlock for the
first six terminals:
echo Activating Numlock ...
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do
/usr/bin/setleds +num /dev/tty${i} /dev/null
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