how to turn numlock on automatically?

Alf829 · 07-29-2003, 08:50 AM

Hi,

Sorry about this silly newbie question, but is there any way of turning on the numlock automatically everytime red hat 9 loads up?

Currently, it's always off when I log in and if I don't remember to press the numlock key, things get a bit messy sometimes.

Regards,
alf829

vladkrack · 07-29-2003, 09:00 AM

Hi,

Add to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8]
for tty in $INITTY; do
setleds -D +num < $tty
done

to activate it in X create a file .Xmodmap in your home dir like:
keycode 64 = Meta_L
keycode 0x6D = Multi_key
keycode 79 = 7
keycode 80 = 8
keycode 81 = 9
keycode 83 = 4
keycode 84 = 5
keycode 85 = 6
keycode 87 = 1
keycode 88 = 2
keycode 89 = 3
keycode 90 = 0
keycode 91 = comma
keycode 86 = plus
keycode 77 =

you can check the real keycodes with the command xev

Alf829 · 07-29-2003, 09:10 AM

Hi vladkrack,

Thank you very much for your help

. I'll give the commands a try.

Cheers,
alf829

asktoby · 07-29-2003, 09:37 AM

You may be able to set "bootup numlock status" in your bios.

Alf829 · 07-29-2003, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by asktoby

You may be able to set "bootup numlock status" in your bios.

That's already on, but during startup, linux turns the numlock off again.

ganninu · 08-21-2003, 03:25 PM

ok i found out how it works.... basically doing:

setleds -L +num < /dev/tty[1]

will work for redhat users...

Alf829 · 08-22-2003, 08:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ganninu
ok i found out how it works.... basically doing:

setleds -L +num < /dev/tty[1]

will work for redhat users...

Cool! Nice work ganninu

Thanks a million for the info.

I knew there was a less messy way of getting it to work

I'm sure a lot of people running RH are going to appreciate this.

Cheers,
Alf829