numlock ON before logging in

[Jared Greenwald]

What about the numlockx package?

On 8/17/07, D. Michael McIntyre <michael.mcintyre at rosegardenmusic.com> wrote:
> On Friday 17 August 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > there is one teeny led on the keyboard that must be on or it doesn't work
> > from a fresh boot.  The last fresh boot however was several months ago.
> > (ups)
>
> I HATE that keyboard.  My wife has one of those #!^@#^@#^#^#^#$^#^ things.
>
> On the numlock at boot thing, I'm remembering something in the init scripts on
> Mandrake.
>
> How about that.  I never throw anything away.  I still have my /etc directory
> from Mandrake 8.1 (my first distro.)  I guess I've been keeping it around for
> this very day.
>
> It's /etc/init.d/numlock.
>
> Here's the script.  It looks like the meaty bit is "setleds" but I have no
> idea...  Yup, we seem to have one on Debian.  Should be simple enough to
> extract a solution from these elements, but I don't feel like doing the
> extraction myself.  Pointing out the path will have to suffice.
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> D. Michael McIntyre
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