[WBEL-users] NUM lock on a Compaq SFF

[Robert Moskowitz]

At 06:01 PM 2/1/2005, Jesus Aneiros Sosa wrote:
>On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> > I have the Compaq BIOS set for NUM lock on with bootup. But it is not 
> on in
> > Linux.
> >
> > It was on with Win2000 and still on if I drop into BIOS setup (then goes
> > off after I exit and let Linux load).
> >
> > What is turning it off?
>
>You could put this into /etc/rc.d/rc.local
>
># Activar el numlock para las terminales virtuales 1-7
>INITTY=/dev/tty[1-7]
>for tty in $INITTY; do
>    setleds -D +num < $tty
>done

Thanks for the suggestion, but this did not turn num lock on.

sigh.