On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 03:05:22PM +0200, Michael Wichmann wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Just a quick question about this little thing, that bugs me from time to > time:) Num-lock ist turned off by default after I boot up FreeBSD > 5.2.1. Is there any way to enable it by default? > > Thanks, > Micha
There is often a BIOS setting that may affect this, but this is assuming that you are speaking about booting to a console. If you are booting into X then, from past experience, it is a bit more tricky. I haven't looked at it in a while and things may have changed, but as of a year or so ago there were various hacks and tools to get the Numlock activated when booting into X. KDE's FAQ used to have a section on this, in which they stated that it wasn't really a KDE issue at all, but gave some tips on it simply because the issue came up frequently. You can try playing around with xset(1) and the 'led' option. I also recall that there was a small program developed for the very purpose of automatically activating the Numlock when booting into X. A few web searches should pull up a lot of information. Nathan -- PGP Public Key: pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD8527E49
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