How to modify keyboard.c in 3.7 kernel to turn on numlock?

buckprivatemil · 02-09-2013, 02:44 PM

In older kernels, it is easy to modify keyboard.c to set numlock on.

Please explain how to accomplish this in 3.7 kernels.

John VV · 02-11-2013, 11:33 AM

Without knowing any of the needed information
your distro
iut's version
and just what modules you built on this non-standard kernel

install ( AND SET UP /CONFIGURE )
"numlockx"

buckprivatemil · 02-11-2013, 12:47 PM

John VV said:
> your distro
This is the Linux kernel forum. Distro is not material.

> iut's version
Google says that "iut's" is "Intrauterine transfusion".

> and just what modules you built on this non-standard kernel
There is nothing non-standard about kernel 3.7 that I am aware of.

> install ( AND SET UP /CONFIGURE )
> "numlockx"
Again, this is the Linux kernel forum. X is not involved.

HINT:
In older kernels, changing line 65 of keyboard.c, which says:
#define KBD_DEFLEDS 0
is sufficient to boot with numlock on. No, I am not going to document in this thread the modified line 65, and I request that nobody else does either so that Google won't find an outdated 'solution'. The 3.7 keyboard.c does not contain "DEFLEDS".

For the solution, see http://andthatsjazz.org/numlock.html