[ale] RH8.0 Num Lock on Bootup

Brian J. Dowd bdowd at dentfirst.com
Sat Jan 4 15:38:21 EST 2003


'man setleds' gave this as an example

INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8]
            for tty in $INITTY; do     
                 setleds -D +num < $tty
            done

Sorry, didn't work for me either...
-Brian

>I know this thread has been discussed here before but I couldn't find it
>in the archives. 
>
>How do you get RH8.0 (with GNOME desktop) to turn on num lock on boot
>up? 
>
>I found the below script on redhat.com and tried adding it to rc.local
>but, it didn't help:
>
><script>
>for t in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
>do
>        setleds +num < /dev/tty$t > /dev/null
>done
></script>
>
>
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