Jan Henkins wrote:
> Enough natter, I've got a small question regarding Mandrake/RH in general.
> This was not a problem under Leeloo, but it kinda plagues me with Fessten.
> I've got an oldish IBM Thinkpad 701 CS (with the nice folding keyboard)
> that works just fine with Fessten, but as soon as runlevel 3 is entered, the
> numlock key goes on. Not a problem on a desktop machine, but with all
> the multi-function keys on a Notebook computer this is an irritation. I've
> disabled "numlock-on" in the BIOS settings, but Linux totally over-rules
> that. Where can I disable this? I've read all the HOWTO's on the "kbd"
> modules, and came out none the wiser. Any ideas? My "root" login is
> at the moment "r66t" if I forget to physically switch numlock off! ;-)
Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and comment out the following section:
# Linux Mandrake : this little script switch on the LEDs
# in console mode
INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8]
for tty in $INITTY; do
setleds -D +num < $tty
done
The change will take effect after a reboot.
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Steve Philp
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