Not sure how ubuntu does its initscripts, but on my boxes (running Mandriva) there is a script, /etc/init.d/numlock, that toggles this. By default this script is run whenever I boot into runlevels 2, 3, or 4, I think. I don't like this behavior and so turned it off. Try this:
$ man chkconfig $ ls /etc/init.d/ $ sudo chkconfig --list numlock To turn it off I did $ sudo chkconfig numlock off If I'm on the right track you could turn it on in a similar way. Hope this helps. Aaron On Thursday 26 April 2007 22:34, Tim Coddington wrote: | On my new 'puter, E4300 Intel CPU, 2Gb, SATAII, AsRock ConRoe945G-DVD | motherboard (Yea, I can help burn DVD's if I get my burner working). | | newly loaded with Ubuntu 6.1 | | It would be nice to make the num-lock key come up in a locked state so the | keypad would be useful to enter numbers on right away. I go into the BIOS | setup utility and alter the value that I think should accomplish this, but | each time boot is complete, the num-lock is off. Does Linux have | something that toggles it off, thus overriding BIOS initial setup when it | boots? -- Aaron A. King, Ph.D. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology University of Michigan GPG Public Key: 0x6E74F51B
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