NumLock on with boot? How?

[Rick Stevens]

Ajai Khattri wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> 
>>That's normally a BIOS setting.  I don't know of a way to force it from
>>the system.
> 
> 
> Gentoo comes with a script to do this (/etc/init.d/numlock). Looking at
> the script I see it runs setleds. Checking on a RH9 box I see that setleds
> is included. So maybe you can craft together an init script to do
> something like:
> 
>         setleds -D +num < /dev/tty1

I hadn't thought of that.  Good catch!

> Or for all virt consoles:
> 
>         for tty in $(seq 1 6)
>         do
>                         setleds -D +num < /dev/${tty} &>/dev/null
>         done
> 
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