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How can I defalut RH9 to turn on num-lock during bootup? I know that is probably a very random, stupid question but it is really getting on my nerves. thanks
Ok, it's really quite simple. You can fiddle with the BIOS to your heart's content, but you can also set it up on booting! I'm going to presume you boot into a GUI login (runlevel 5).
Login.
Open a terminal.
Change to root by typing su root and then enter root's password.
Move to /etc/rc.d/rc5.d (cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d)
Make a symlink to the numlock script, beginning with SXX (ln -s ../init.d/numlock ./S85numlock)
Next time you boot it should enable numlock for you.
Simple!
If you're not comfortable with that, then you can use a program like tksysv to edit what is started at boottime, and at which runlevel.
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Originally posted by chii-chan
How come the windowz turn it on when it boots up?
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on my pc when i set it to be on windows turns it off.
(i have dual boot)
I've got dual boot too, but windows turns it on and Red Hat keeps it off. Not for long though, thanks for the post Thymox
(I've been wondering about this one for so long I had given up )
OT (again): Well if you really do have two sheds, perhaps you might either get a third, just to distinguish yourself. http://modrzew.stopklatka.pl/artur.html
Originally posted by Thymox
Move to /etc/rc.d/rc5.d (cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d)
Make a symlink to the numlock script, beginning with SXX (ln -s ../init.d/numlock ./S85numlock)
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I'm using Redhat 8.0. Why there is no numlock script in my /etc/int.d/ dir? Can I get the numlock script somewhere?
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