Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:49:26 +0200 From: Michael Wichmann <michaelwichmann@gmx.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: nkinkade@ub.edu.bz Subject: Re: Num lock status on boot Message-ID: <200409221849.32675.michaelwichmann@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20040922150007.GD3633@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> References: <200409221505.37494.michaelwichmann@gmx.net> <20040922150007.GD3633@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub>
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--nextPart6230946.qYyL9EYXZo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 22 September 2004 17:00, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 03:05:22PM +0200, Michael Wichmann wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Just a quick question about this little thing, that bugs me from > > time to time:) Num-lock ist turned off by default after I boot up > > FreeBSD 5.2.1. Is there any way to enable it by default? > > > > Thanks, > > Micha > > There is often a BIOS setting that may affect this, but this is > assuming that you are speaking about booting to a console. If you True... I wasn't aware that this is an X 'issue'. But it turns out num=20 lock is on when I boot, and goes off when I start into X. > are booting into X then, from past experience, it is a bit more > tricky. I haven't looked at it in a while and things may have > changed, but as of a year or so ago there were various hacks and > tools to get the Numlock activated when booting into X. KDE's FAQ > used to have a section on this, in which they stated that it wasn't > really a KDE issue at all, but gave some tips on it simply because Yep. By now (I'm running 3.3), there is an option in the KDE control=20 center to activate num lock on startup... just found out about that:)=20 The numlockx package (... btw thanks Kevin) seems to be the best=20 solution for now, since it's not KDE specific. However, it releaves just some of the pain. X resets the num lock on=20 exit. Any ideas on that? > the Numlock when booting into X. A few web searches should pull up a > lot of information. Point taken... I didn't find anything on the num lock exit issue=20 though:) Greetings, Micha =2D-=20 Michael Wichmann michaelwichmann@gmx.net --nextPart6230946.qYyL9EYXZo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBUa0cyaG8M6g20w0RAncEAJ93Gm3KU14FO0zpPmKIYzULQ3PIQQCfY+c2 p1sCnOEOPUm1U+ODflQdG1g= =8Ria -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6230946.qYyL9EYXZo--
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