How disable numlock before it gets to Log-in Screen?

Burgin · 04-30-2004, 10:41 AM

I recently installed Mandrake 10 on laptop where some of the letter keys can double as a numeric keypad. The problem is that when I get to the log-in prompt, it is enabled by default which causes me to type in the wrong user passord.

Now you can automatically disable numlock on each users KDE session but that occurs AFTER you have logged in.

I´d rather not have to disable this every time I log in. Any ideas?

jfrey · 04-30-2004, 11:29 AM

Burgin,
I believe you can change that in your BIOS settings.

J

Burgin · 04-30-2004, 11:35 AM

I had already look around in my bios but I didn´t see anything.

Maybe I misread something but I thought the kernel generally ignored most of the BIOS settings anyway.

cb_linus · 04-30-2004, 12:26 PM

In your configuration (drakconf from a terminal or 'Configure your computer' in KDE menu) select:

System -> Services

There's a 'numlock' service - just untick the box by 'on boot' should do it

Burgin · 04-30-2004, 12:50 PM

Why thanks cb_linus. Hadn´t occured to me to look there.

Although I can't reboot just yet to verify this as I´m using Mandrake as an environment to build a Gentoo Linux on another partition. However when I switch to a different virtual console, the new setting seems to be in effect. I had the same problem with it being enabed when I changed consoles.