ddkconsultancy worte: >Sorry but I am just a newbie, so forgive me in advance :-)
>I just want to get my great Debian 5 with KDE start ups with numlock >on and the numlock led on. >I googled a lot but nu solution found. >KDE numlock on setting puts it on but not the led! >Leds=+num is being switch off when KDE starts up my advice: I had the same problem times ago, filled out a kde-bug report against kdm; BUT found out the following workaround (answers to the bug-report mentioned only a bug within the xorg-package which caused problems with num-lock -> but obviously only whitin KDM) So please check the following: 1. /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc In the section [X-*-Greeter] there must exist the following entry: NumLock=On On my Debian 4.0 (Etch) this DID not work (although Debian 3.0 Codename "Sarge") worked very well So the 2nd Check: In KDE-ControlCenter / Devices / Keyboard: I left the settings : NUMLOCK not to be changed at KDE-Start If this is also not working you can try additionally the following steps: a) /etc/console-tools/config #Turn on numlock by default ==> uncomment this line (delete the trailing '#' sign) b) at least you can do: apt-get update numlocks echo numlocks on >> /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsetup HOPE that HELPS Herbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

