[ale] RH8.0 Num Lock on Bootup

[Robert Heaven]

Thanks, that fixed it...

On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:00, Keith Morris wrote:
> I had exactly the same problem.  Someone on this list suggested the
> following program and it works like a charm (at least in RH8 it does)
> 
> http://ftp.silug.org/pub/ltsp/setnumlock.tar.gz
> 
> I compiled it and put it in /usr/bin and then (from the README)
> 
> " If you use GDM
>    Edit the /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default file.
>    on some distributions (Debian) it may be /etc/gdm/Init/Default
>    Add the line
> 		/usr/bin/setnumlock
>    to the end of the file"
> 
> Works perfectly everytime!
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 15:13, Robert Heaven wrote:
> > 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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> Keith Morris <graphicsguy at attbi.com>
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