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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Ben J. Cohen" <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Two questions
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On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Ben J. Cohen wrote:

> I have two questions which should be straightforward to answer but I
> couldn't find them in the mailing lists, etc.
> 
> Firstly, when using some applications, particularly vi, in an xterm under
> X the numeric keypad produces garbage like 
> y 
> x 
> w 
> v 
> u 
> this when I try to use it to get numbers. 

You _do_ have NumLock on, right?

I've not had this problem since the 2.1.X days.

> I have
> 
> # Let the server do the NumLock processing.  This should only be required
> # when using pre-R6 clients
>     ServerNumLock
> 
> in XF86Config.  (This is necessary to make other applications work
> properly.)  
> 
> Is there any way to stop this from happening?

Take that directive out; it makes NumLock do nutty things.

> Secondly, kernel messages go to the console.  Is there any way of
> redirecting the console to, say, /dev/ttyv2 so that when I log in on ttyv0
> I don't get lots of messages appearing on the screen?

No, since /dev/console is glued to that vty.  Just use a different vty; we
do here.

Doug White                               
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